🌊 SURF 'N TURF 🏝️
-THE ISLAND LIFE-
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In the warm blue waters of the Solomon Islands, an island chain in the South Pacific, lies one of the world’s largest sea creatures.
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Roughly the size of two basketball courts, it’s neither a whale nor a giant squid.
It is a single piece of coral.
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On Wednesday, a team of researchers and filmmakers exploring the Solomon Islands revealed that they found what they claim is the world’s largest individual coral colony.
The coral, a communal organism comprising millions of animals called polyps, is 34 meters wide and 32 meters long — and so large it can be seen from space.
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A typical coral reef is made of many different coral colonies, most of which are genetically distinct, whereas this is just one individual.
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