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BROOKLIN, Canada, Feb 27 (IPS) - Free, authoritative and online: 1.8 million species.
That is the ultimate goal of the Encyclopedia of Life project, which put its first 30,000 species on the Internet this week. This ambitious global project will provide the details of every known species -- habitat, range, life cycle, pictures, and more -- and archive everything online so anyone can access this important information about life on Earth.
From sharks to mushrooms to bacteria, the Encyclopedia of Life will provide scientifically verified information that will satisfy both a grade school child's curiosity or enable a university researcher -- or amateur naturalist -- to make a scientific breakthrough, says James Edward, new executive director of the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) project headquartered in Washington, DC at the Smithsonian Institution.
Each species page has a built in content slider that allows you to select how much information you want to see on the page. And there is plenty of detail, including links to at least 1 million pages of digitized scientific information that is normally only available in the big 10 natural history museums located in the developed world.
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That is the ultimate goal of the Encyclopedia of Life project, which put its first 30,000 species on the Internet this week. This ambitious global project will provide the details of every known species -- habitat, range, life cycle, pictures, and more -- and archive everything online so anyone can access this important information about life on Earth.
From sharks to mushrooms to bacteria, the Encyclopedia of Life will provide scientifically verified information that will satisfy both a grade school child's curiosity or enable a university researcher -- or amateur naturalist -- to make a scientific breakthrough, says James Edward, new executive director of the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) project headquartered in Washington, DC at the Smithsonian Institution.
Each species page has a built in content slider that allows you to select how much information you want to see on the page. And there is plenty of detail, including links to at least 1 million pages of digitized scientific information that is normally only available in the big 10 natural history museums located in the developed world.
For complete article go to -
http://news.yahoo.com/s/oneworld/20080228/wl_oneworld/65731583241204178811
Shed those extra pounds with MSN and The Biggest Loser! Learn more.
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