A solitary sunfish at an aquarium in southwestern Japan lost its appetite, began banging into the side of the fish tank and appeared unwell days after the facility closed last month for renovations.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A solitary sunfish at an aquarium in Japan lost its appetite, began banging into the side of the fishtank ...

The large sunfish arrived at the aquarium in February 2024 from the southern coast of Kochi in the Pacific Ocean. The sunfish, a member of the blowfish family known for its unique shape and big ...

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An aquarium in Japan is using cardboard cutouts of visitors to cheer up its lonely resident sunfish, who stopped eating after the building closed to real-life visitors. Kaikyokan Aquarium in ...

Tropical Cyclone Sean has formed near the Pilbara Coast. Picture: Bureau of Meteorology Overnight, the strongest wind gusts recorded by the observing network were 113km/h in Barrow Island and ...

This may sound like the start of a particularly silly joke, but it was a very real challenge faced by staff at a Japanese aquarium when ... open sea in temperate and tropical regions all over ...

Tropical Cyclone Sean is now a category three system about 465 kilometres off the coast of Exmouth. While it did not reach the mainland, the Pilbara coast experienced heavy rain, flooding major ...

The move was a "last resort" to solve the sunfish's health issues which appeared after the aquarium closed for renovation A sociable sunfish who was reportedly missing its human audience during a ...

Now, the Paisley-based clerical assistant can swim in the ocean, take her two-year-old son Leo to the aquarium and even cook fish fingers – though she stops short of eating them herself.