The biggest plankton on earth. But how?

    Did you know that biggest plankton on Earth is a 10 foot long, 5,000 pound immobilized monster? But wait how can this be? Isn't plankton really small?

Well, by definition, plankton is an organism that just floats around the ocean stumbling around on the currents getting food. This is exactly what an ocean sunfish is. 

They have a back fin which refuses to grow and two bottom and top fins that are more or less useless. The only way they get food is by hoping to stumble into a jellyfish. It must feel like those arcade games where you're really close to getting a reward but then you don't. I mean, if I was an ocean sunfish my greatest hope would be that they have underwater anger management classes.

But why don't they get snatched by predators? There are actually two reasons for this: their body is so hard to chew predators would usually rather risk their life hunting for other animals, and these fish lay up to 3 million eggs at a time. Good luck with the sibling rivalries.

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