Discovered - The World's Largest Coral

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Divers from National Geographic's Pristine Sea expedition exploring the Solomon Islands near the island of San Cristobal in October stumbled across what is probably the world's largest coral colony.

Manu San Félix spotted the colossal structure while filming near Malaulalo Island. Initially, the team thought they had come across a shipwreck due to the sheer size of the object detected on their maps, reports the Jerusalem Post. San Félix recalled, "I went diving in a place where the map said there was a shipwreck, and then I saw something." Diving down to investigate, he was astonished to find that the shadow was not a shipwreck but a world-record-beating mega-coral, covering an area 112 by 105 feet. Larger than a blue whale, the planet's largest animal, this spectacular coral is so enormous that it can be seen from space, yet it has long gone unnoticed....

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