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
Coastal species like frogfish, which live in diverse and productive coral reef environments, exhibited much lower rates of evolutionary change than their counterparts in the deep sea.
From Science Daily • Dec. 2, 2024
A New Zealand warship which crashed into a coral reef before it caught fire and sank had been left on autopilot, an official inquiry has found.
From BBC • Nov. 29, 2024
A coral reef is normally built out of lots of colonies of different kinds.
From NewsForKids.net • Nov. 27, 2024
It was so full of minerals that rough, chalky encrustations had built up along the edges, like a coral reef.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
