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

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

"We can still have fairly healthy corals in the future, but this requires more aggressive reductions in global emissions and strategic approaches to coral reef management"

From Science Daily • Nov. 28, 2024

A coral reef is normally built out of lots of colonies of different kinds.

From NewsForKids.net • Nov. 27, 2024

Most of the fish are clustered around the coral reef.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon