Warm Cornish waters attract new marine life

Mark Oliver and agencies
Tuesday July 25, 2006
Guardian Unlimited

The UK's heatwave has been attracting some rather unusual fans - giant ocean sunfish, so called because of their habit of 'sunbathing' on the surface of the ocean.

It emerged today that marine researchers spotted 19 of the species - the world's largest bony fish - during a two hour survey off the south-west tip of Cornwall last week.