World's Largest Coral Found Near The Solomon Islands
The Solomon Islands' waters are home to the largest known coral in the world that can be seen from space nbsp The enormous multicolored organism which has a circumference of meters is made out of a complex web of individual coral polyps that have been growing for years During a voyage to the Solomon Islands scientists from the National Geographic Pristine Seas team found the vast coral in the coral triangle a region of the western Pacific The Pavona clavus coral which is primarily brown with bright yellow blue and red highlights is home to a wide variety of marine life including fish crabs and shrimp nbsp nbsp Diving Much Deeper nbsp Source Google Images nbsp nbsp This is a stand-alone coral that has developed unhindered from polyps generated from larvae that settled on the bottom and multiplied into millions of other genetically identical polyps over ages in contrast to
