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 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
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
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
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