# Mola Tecta ID - An Oral History **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Tags:** cool-story\ **Created:** [March 22, 2019, 6:59am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/mola-tecta-id-an-oral-history/1346 "2019-03-22T06:59:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2019, 6:59am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/mola-tecta-id-an-oral-history/1346/1 "2019-03-22T06:59:41Z")
I know most people here have likely seen the dashboard announcement for this, but I wanted to share an oral history of the recent _Mola tecta_ observation and ID collaboration from southern California that I compiled. It was a lot of fun reading everyone’s account of how it all went down. [https://www.inaturalist.org/blog/22612-holy-mola-the-oral-history-of-an-inat-identification](https://www.inaturalist.org/blog/22612-holy-mola-the-oral-history-of-an-inat-identification) ---
**Author:** ![charlie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d6d6ee/32.png) [@charlie](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/charlie)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2019, 11:46am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/mola-tecta-id-an-oral-history/1346/2 "2019-03-22T11:46:10Z")
this was a wonderful blog post, thanks for doing it! I had to unsubscribe from it due to all the comments, but i assume others are enjoying it too. ---
**Author:** ![KitKestrel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/kitkestrel/32/2501_2.png) [@KitKestrel](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/KitKestrel)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2019, 6:39pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/mola-tecta-id-an-oral-history/1346/3 "2019-03-22T18:39:04Z")
Magnificent! Must have been fun to write, too! ---
**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2019, 6:41pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/mola-tecta-id-an-oral-history/1346/4 "2019-03-22T18:41:33Z")
All I did was assemble it, have to give credit for everyone who took the time to write their part. ---
**Author:** ![KitKestrel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/kitkestrel/32/2501_2.png) [@KitKestrel](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/KitKestrel)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2019, 6:42pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/mola-tecta-id-an-oral-history/1346/5 "2019-03-22T18:42:44Z")
Yeah, but someone had to assemble, make sense of it, have the idea in the first place :-) It was a nice job. ---
**Author:** ![danaleeling](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/danaleeling/32/1378_2.png) [@danaleeling](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/danaleeling)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2020, 9:45pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/mola-tecta-id-an-oral-history/1346/6 "2020-02-22T21:45:06Z")
How a bizarre, monster fish hoodwinked researchers and reeled in a wave of citizen scientists [https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/02/22/hoodwinker-sunfish-discovery-north-america-citizen-scientists/4503250002/](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/02/22/hoodwinker-sunfish-discovery-north-america-citizen-scientists/4503250002/) ---
**Author:** ![jdmore](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/jdmore/32/1116_2.png) [@jdmore](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/jdmore)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2021, 7:23pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/mola-tecta-id-an-oral-history/1346/7 "2021-09-24T19:23:44Z")
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