coral reef
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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
Using underwater footage, it will explore the major threats to our oceans, from destructive fishing techniques to mass coral reef bleaching.
From BBC ● May 4, 2025
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 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
