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Nov 30, 2022 · Researchers have come up with wide-ranging estimates for how many species there are. As May points out, this ranges anywhere from 3 to well over 100 million — many orders of magnitude of difference. Some more recent studies estimate that this figure is as much as one trillion.
May 25, 2021 · The UK has a rich natural environment, with over 70,000 species of animals, plants, fungi and single-celled organisms. Knowing the abundance and distribution of our species, whether that be a...
Eight million, seven hundred thousand species! (Give or take 1.3 million.) That is a new, estimated total number of species on Earth—the most precise calculation ever offered—with 6.5 million species found on land and 2.2 million dwelling in the ocean depths.
Actually counting how many species of animals and plants - not to mention fungi and microscopic creatures - exist is extremely difficult, and to date nobody has a precise answer. Species new to science are turning up all the time.
Apr 28, 2019 · After compiling and analysing a database of DNA sequences from 5 million microbe species from 35,000 sites around the world, researchers concluded that there are a staggering 1 trillion...
Aug 23, 2011 · There are 8.7 million eukaryotic species on our planet — give or take 1.3 million. The latest biodiversity estimate, based on a new method of prediction, dramatically narrows the range of 'best...
Apr 8, 2014 · How many species are there? For decades scientists have been asking—and trying to answer—this question. Guesses, estimates and calculations have been as low as half a million and as...
