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Scientists discover 600-mile-long coral reef near mouth of the Amazon River

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Scientists never would have expected the Amazon River — surging with with more runoff and sediment than any other river in the world — to hold an ecosystem as fragile as a coral reef. But, an international team including scientists from the University of Georgia and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro found a huge 3,600-square-mile reef system just below the Amazon’s muddy waters.

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