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'Common Mola Basking at Surface' Photograph by Ryan Van Meter

Common Mola Basking at Surface

Ocean Sunfish

3 August 2022

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Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA

Common Mola

Mola mola
iNaturalist Observation
MARKED RESEARCH GRADE
More Observations from Expedition Gloucester

Surveys of marine life and pelagic birds taken aboard New England whale watch boats (2021 to 2024)

22 Observations
9 Identified Species
Humpback Lunge Feeding
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
Mother Humpback Diving into Sunset Atlantic
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (July 2024)
Basking Shark
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (July 2024)
Cooperative Lunge Feeding Group of Humpback Whales Create Bubble Nets to Corral Prey
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
Northern Gannet Dives into the Stellwagen Bank
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
Sei Whale
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (April 2022)
More from Biodiversity Life in the Coastal Seas

The eruption of species where the water meets land.

24 Observations
10 Identified Species
The Humpback & The Gull
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (April 2022)
Northern Gannet Dives into the Stellwagen Bank
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
Loggerhead Sea Turtle Foraging Sea Grass in Turbulent Cove
Paros, Greece (August 2017)
Atlantic White-Sided Dolphin Cruising the Coast of Cape Ann
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA
Porpoising Harbor Seal
Castine, Maine (September 2021)
Porpoising Atlantic White-Sided Dolphin
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (July 2024)
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