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.
Historical claims of trees growing to 130 m (430 ft), and even 150 m (490 ft), are now largely disregarded as unreliable, and attributed to human error. The following are the tallest reliably measured specimens from the top species. This list shows only currently standing specimens: