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.
A tree dubbed the Tall Tree in the Tall Trees Grove once measured nearly 367.8 feet (120 m). Subsequent logging in the Redwood Creek basin subjected the grove to windier, drier, and hotter conditions. The Tall Tree's crown fell off in the 1980s.