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A screenshot from video showing illustrations of ancient coral reefs.
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Coral Reefs Changing Over Time

How do we know what coral reefs looked like hundreds of years ago? Often times, we...
Fri, 08/30/2013 - 06:55
a display case of red coral jewelry containing necklaces, earrings, bracelets, and rings
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Avoid Coral Jewelry

When you are shopping for gifts and jewelry, steer clear of gifts that use real...
The Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System consists of the largest barrier reef in the northern hemisphere, offshore atolls, and several hundred sand cays, mangrove forests, coastal lagoons, and estuaries. The system's seven sites illustrate the evolutionary h
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Charles Darwin's Ocean Upwelling

Charles Darwin is so well known he almost needs no introduction. The 19th-century...
February 2015
Happy World Ocean Day!
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Coral Letters: A Message from the Corals of Curacao

If you look closely, you can read a message in the corals. We are not being...
June 2015
A piece of the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef exhibit.

When Art Meets Science: The Hyberbolic Crochet Coral Reef

The “Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef,” a unique exhibition and thought-provoking...
October 2010
A piece of the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef exhibit.
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A Rainbow of Crocheted Corals

Visitors to the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef temporary exhibit at Smithsonian’s...

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