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Earth\’s Biggest Structure

  • May 19, 2012
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

The biggest single structure made by living beings on Earth is the Great Barrier Reef near Australia. It’s even visible from space! It took thousands of years for the reef to be formed from shell-like structures created by tiny ocean animals called coral polyps.

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