Earth may be home to one trillion species

Monday, May 2, 2016 - 17:40 in Earth & Climate

Earth could contain nearly 1 trillion species, with only one-thousandth of 1 percent now identified, according to a study from biologists. The estimate is based on the intersection of large datasets and universal scaling laws.

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