Coral discovered in the Solomon Islands could be over 300 years old. In fact, “it is bigger than a blue whale”, says the team
The world’s largest coral – measuring 34 meters wide, 32 meters long and 5.5 meters high – was accidentally discovered by a diver cameraman, part of a National Geographic expedition, in the southwest Pacific Ocean.
Coral discovered in the Solomon Islands could be over 300 years old. In fact, “it is bigger than a blue whale”, says the team.
This coral is so big, it is visible even from space.
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It is essentially a mega-coral, which is a collection of many connected, tiny creatures that together form an organism – not a reef.
“I went diving in a place where the map said there was a wreck and then I saw something,” said Manu San Felix.
Seeing the coral was like seeing an “underwater cathedral,” an emotional cameraman told the BBC.
“It’s very emotional. I felt this immense respect for something that stayed in one place and survived for hundreds of years. “I thought, ‘Wow, this was here when Napoleon was alive,'” he said.
Source: Skai
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