Video: Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

Australia's Great Barrier Reef is home to some of nature's most unusual animals - corals. Corals are animals, not plants, and have a remarkable way of reproducing to build their reef societies.

Secrets of the Great Barrier Reef

If Australia's on your life list, now is a great time to go. Click here for more information on our tours to Australia. If you're interested in coral reefs, click here for Smithsonian's interactive coral reef exhibit, or here for more on the amazing Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef, which will be at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History through April 24, 2011.

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