Scientists aboard a National Geographic research vessel have uncovered the world’s largest known coral in the southwest Pacific Ocean, a massive specimen of Pavona clavus. Found near the Three Sisters islands in the Solomon Islands,

From the surface, “it looked like a shipwreck,” said Molly Timmers, lead scientist of the Pristine Seas expedition. But the team’s cinematographer dove to take a closer look and found a “mega coral hiding in plain sight.”

The largest and three hundred-year-old coral have been discovered in the southwest Pacific Ocean.According to BBC, the scientists have found mega coral, which is made up of millions of tiny creatures connected together to form one organism