coral reef
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The film cuts to a hummingbird sipping nectar from a flower on a cactus, a sea turtle floating over a coral reef, pink flamingos on a green lake, a snowflake, a butterfly.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
A coral reef is normally built out of lots of colonies of different kinds.
From NewsForKids.net • Nov. 27, 2024
Even the recent Red List assessment that found over two-fifths of coral reef species threatened with extinction added there are some species where data is so deficient that a risk category cannot be assigned.
From Salon • Nov. 21, 2024
Researchers in Australia say temperatures in and around the vast coral reef over the past decade are the highest recorded in 400 years.
From BBC • Aug. 7, 2024
He couldn’t think straight about anything that had happened since the landing craft had ground onto the coral reef.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
