Anything But Metric

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100 buses long: Scientists map one of the world's largest known coral colonies (phys.org)

submitted 16 hours ago by resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe to c/anythingbutmetric@discuss.tchncs.de

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A huge coral colony stretching more than 1.5 kilometers (0.93 miles) along the outer reef of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands has been identified by researchers, making it one of the largest known coral colonies ever recorded.