Three young fishermen got himself something of a surprise when they suddenly caught sight of the huge fish that lay on the beach.

Pictures of the fish has now gone viral, as the fish looks like something out of the usual.

The story brings several international media, including CNN and The Guardian.

the Fish weighed the same as a car. Photo: National Parks South Australia

the Fish turns out to be a sunfish, also known as a ‘Mola mola’. Shortly after that Steven Jones, Hunter Church, and Linette Grzelak found it at a stand in the national park of the Coorong in Autralien, they took several pictures of it and put them up on their Facebook.

They had all the hard to believe their own eyes.

– My colleague thought at first that it was a piece of driftwood, as they drove past. None of them had seen anything like this before, ” says Linette Grzelak to CNN.

It is unclear how it ended up on the beach. Photo: National Parks South Australia

Mola mola’a liver of to eat jellyfish. It can also be over two feet long, and typically weigh the fish as much as a family car. In fact they become so large, that both known to capsize, when they encounter the giant fish at the sea surface.

the National Parks South Australia can’t answer that, how the fish ended up on the beach.