Monday, August 24, 2009

Encyclopedia of Life...

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.

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