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

The Great Barrier Reef, the world's biggest coral reef system on the north-east coast, is rightly recognised as a Unesco World Heritage Site.

From BBC • Jul. 22, 2025

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

The shadowed waters conceal a coral reef offshore.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García