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About Encyclopedia of Life. In One Species at a Time, host and scientist-reporter Ari Daniel explored the diversity of life, talking with scientists both in their labs and out in the natural world. Hear surprising stories about nature from experts examining life forms everywhere, from yeast to the bowhead whale.
In 2014, the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) has grown to include information on nearly 1.4 million species out of the 1.9 million species recognized by science, and has expanded to serve more than 5 million unique visitors a year.
Flowering plants, or angiosperms are the largest grouping within the plant kingdom (Kingdom Plantae or Viridiplantae) in terms of the numbers of described species. Approximately 260,000 species of flowering plant have been named so far, constituting nearly 90% of all known species of plants. Even so, taxonomists describe many new species ...
The main groups of extant fishes. Lampreys and hagfish (superclass Cyclostomata) are a group of jawless fishes at the base of the vertebrate tree of life, whose adults are characterized by a toothed, funnel-like sucking mouth and horny (not bony) teeth. Lampreys are best known for species like the marine lamprey, which bore into the flesh of ...
Jan 1, 2017 · Explore plants, water life, insects, reptiles, amphibians, birds and mammals with this wonderfully comprehensive encyclopedia. Useful features include visual factfiles, bulleted facts, charts, world records, bizarre facts and top tens.
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- Miles Kelly
Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life. Steve Parker. 4.5 out of 5 stars ...
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Encyclopedia of Earth. Archaea are a domain of single-celled microorganisms. They have no cell nucleus or any other organelles inside their cells. In the past Archaea were classified as an unusual group of bacteria and named archaebacteria, but since the Archaea have an independent evolutionary history and manifest numerous differences in their ...
