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

For centuries, an extraordinary coral lay hidden beneath the Pacific Ocean’s surface near the Solomon Islands, growing unnoticed on the seabed. Now, scientists from National Geographic’s Pristine Seas program have uncovered this massive living structure,

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