approaches nearly 10 percent completion towards its goal of cataloging 1.7 million species known to science. This is an especially daunting task since ~20,000 new species are identified each year.
Link to the on-line Encyclopedia of Life.
RELATED: Study on evolution's winners and losers concludes "new species emerge nearly as often as they die off."
RELATED UPDATE: The Bu bro observes that the tuatara is the fastest evolving creature, at least at a DNA level.
Monday, August 24, 2009
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