New simulation suggests millions of undiscovered terrestrial species, revealing hidden patterns in biodiversity and animal ...

The Earth is currently experiencing its sixth major extinction event. One million species globally are at risk of extinction in the next few decades, including 27 percent of the world’s mammals, 41 ...

We can then compare between different groups and taxonomic ranks to give us a total species estimate.” At the moment, most papers estimate that there are around 5–10 million species on Earth, ...

While we regularly hear about population declines in ‘charismatic’ insects like bees, huge data gaps make it hard to protect ...

The estimate of 5.5 million species of insects is interesting. What’s even more remarkable is that because scientists have ...

This new simulation acts like a global weather forecast for all species on Earth, calculating how many species of animal ... They also estimated that the total number of terrestrial species is in the ...

they're estimated to account for about 97 percent of the total species of animals on Earth [9]. Of the 1.3 million known invertebrate species, the IUCN has evaluated about 9,526 species, with about 30 ...