A rare Ocean Sunfish has been found washed up off the coast of West Donegal.<\/p>\n
The huge fish was discovered by friends out walking yesterday morning at the Back Strand in Falcarragh.<\/p>\n
The fish, which has a disc shape, was dead.<\/p>\n
It was found by friends Mary Doherty and Adele Paton.<\/p>\n
Ocean Sunfish, which can weigh between 247 and 1,000 kg (545 and 2,205lbs) when fully grown, are native to tropical and temperate waters around the world.<\/p>\n
However, because of an increase in ocean temperatures, they are now found occasionally in Irish waters.<\/p>\n
They survive mostly by eating jellyfish, squid and other small fish.<\/p>\n
It is not known how this particular sunfish died although they often become caught up in gillnets.<\/p>\n
It is one of the largest boniest fish in the sea and gets its name as it sunbathes on the surface of the sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rare Ocean Sunfish has been found washed up off the coast of West Donegal. The huge fish…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-76034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}