Coming Soon: The Encyclopedia of Life

Coming Soon: The Encyclopedia of Life

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The effort, called the Encyclopedia of Life, will include species descriptions, pictures, maps, videos, sound, sightings by amateurs, and links to entire genomes and scientific journal papers. Its first pages of information will be shown Wednesday in Washington where the massive effort is being announced by some of the world's leading scientific institutions and universities. The project will take about 10 years to complete.

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The article goes on to say that the catalog will be regularly updated with newly found species. We’ve currently discovered about one quarter of the estimated eight million species out there.

An accurate and easily accessible alternative to Wikipedia? This could be a great resource for some of those in the ATS Research Forum.

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