Photo: "Encyclopedia of Life" to Catalog All Species on Earth

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A demonstration page displays the features of the Encyclopedia of Life, a planned Web-based catalog of all living things on Earth. The project is expected to take ten years to complete, and the information it collects will be freely available to everyone, its organizers say.

Demonstration page courtesy eol.org

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