No. 1 â 680-Pound Goliath Grouper. Courtesy IGFA / igfa.org. The heaviest grouper ever caught and certified as an IGFA world record was this 680-pound goliath grouper. The fish â then generally known as a jewfish â was caught on May 20, 1961, off Fernandina Beach, Florida, using a Spanish mackerel as bait.
This article is about Hyperion, the tallest living tree. For other uses, see Hyperion (disambiguation). Hyperion is the name of a coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) in Northern California that was measured at 115.61 m (379.3 ft), which ranks it as the world's tallest known living tree. 1 Overview.
The World's Tallest Tree Is Hiding Somewhere In California. Woah, this is one very tall tree. Nine years ago, it was the tallest known plant in the world. (See if you can spot the three people, blue shirted, hanging at different points on the trunk). It's 369 feet high. That's about twice the size of the Statue of Liberty (minus the foundation).