Coral Reef Ecosystem, Red Sea

Tropical coral reefs—found in warm, clear, shallow waters—support a rich diversity of marine life, such as these sea bass in the Red Sea. Learn more in the Ocean Portal's Coral Reefs section.

Sea bass flock to a tropical coral reef in the Red Sea.
Michael Lang/Smithsonian Institution

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to me coral reefs are an oceans beuty and if we didnt have coral reefs some ocean animals wouldent have homes any way im going to be a marine biologist and will travel the world to study wonderful ocean creatures and hopefully find new species.
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Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 06/19/2011 - 5:27pm.

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