Researchers have discovered the world's largest coral colony in the southwest Pacific Ocean, in the waters of the Solomon Islands. Measuring an astonishing 34 meters wide and 32 meters long, the coral is a species called *Pavona clavus* and is believed to be over 300 years old.

It’s more than 100 feet long, around 300 years old, made of nearly 1 billion little polyps and visible from space

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