World’s largest coral found in the Pacific

[dangalang]

Someone went overboard with their frag growout contest entry:

World’s largest coral found in the Pacific near Solomon Islands

The coral could be 500 years old and is bigger than a blue whale, scientists say.

www.bbc.com

 

[BAYMAC]

Ahh just beat out mine... .Ta'u Island Porites colony 8 m tall, 69 m in circumference and had a diameter of 22.4 m.

A new record for a massive Porites colony at Ta’u Island, American Samoa - Scientific Reports

An exceptionally large, hermatypic colony of Porites sp. has been identified and measured at Ta’u, American Samoa. This coral was measured in November 2019 as part of an effort to catalogue all large (≥ 2 m diameter) Porites colonies around Ta’u. Colonies exceeding 10 m in diameter were recorded...

www.nature.com

 

[Kensington Reefer]

Thanks for sharing