Taxonomy | Biology for Majors I - Lumen Learning Scientists have identified about 1 9 million species alive today They are divided into the six kingdoms of life shown in Figure 3 Scientists are still discovering new species Thus, they do not know for sure how many species really exist today Most estimates range from 5 to 30 million species
Facts and figures - Royal Entomological Society 7) Insects have been around for more than 350 million years, longer than the dinosaurs and flowering plants 8) The largest known order of insects is Coleoptera (beetles), some 300,000 to 400,000 species of beetle have been described to date
Why Worry about How Many Species and Their Loss? Given that we currently recognize something like 1 5 million distinct eukaryotic species, Mora et al 's estimated species number suggests 480 years to finish the job It is, however, reasonable to expect that in the near future, molecular methods—“barcode taxonomy”—will greatly speed up the task of keying-out collected material, as well
UN Report Warns 1 Million Species Face Extinction A new report from the United Nations says human activity is threatening the survival of up to 1 million species of animals and plants Many, the report says, will disappear within decades
A higher level classification of all living organisms We present a consensus classification of life to embrace the more than 1 6 million species already provided by more than 3,000 taxonomists' expert opinions in a unified and coherent, hierarchically ranked system known as the Catalogue of Life (CoL) The intent of this collaborative effort is to prov …
Scientists trying to protect wildlife from extinction as . . . Climate change may drive millions of species to extinction 21:52 From clean air and water to healthy soil and medicines, our survival and prosperity rely heavily on the rich diversity of plants