What awaits is something almost alien: a diverse ecosystem of sea life in a underwater crater over 300 feet deep ... among the most important being the preservation of the coral reef and wildlife. The ...
The world's biggest coral — an organism made up of about a billion polyps — is about three times bigger than the previous record-holder and was discovered by chance during an expedition off the ...
The enormous organism is bigger than a blue whale and made up of millions of genetically identical, tiny animals called ...
The behemoth coral, discovered in October in the Solomon Islands, is longer than a blue whale and older than the United States.
The "mega" coral is 112-feet wide, 105-feet long and 18-feet high, making it larger than a blue whale, the world's largest animal.