The enormous organism is bigger than a blue whale and made up of millions of genetically identical, tiny animals called polyps

A group of scientists working aboard a research vessel in the southwest Pacific Ocean has discovered the world’s largest coral. Thirty-four meters wide and thirty-two meters long, the gigantic organism is a complex network of coral polyps—tiny individual creatures—that have grown over a span of three centuries.

Scientists aboard a National Geographic research vessel have uncovered the world’s largest known coral in the southwest Pacific Ocean, a massive specimen of Pavona clavus. Found near the Three Sisters islands in the Solomon Islands,