coral reef
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"They are extremely colorful and can be spotted on coral reef ecosystems. However, many nudibranchs are very small in size and are extremely difficult to spot underwater with the naked eye."
From Science Daily • May 27, 2026
She compares the human body to a coral reef, where animals, plants, and microscopic organisms “cohabitate as one huge and beautiful chimeric metaorganism.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2025
A coral reef is normally built out of lots of colonies of different kinds.
From NewsForKids.net • Nov. 27, 2024
Yet as coral reef ecologist Alexandra Dempsey explored the atolls’ beautiful coral reefs in 2015, she nevertheless found signs of human pollution.
From Salon • Nov. 21, 2024
Out there, perhaps a mile away, the white surf flinked on a coral reef, and beyond that the open sea was dark blue.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
