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6 Billion Species

*A shorter version of this article was published as The Spice of Life in BBC Wildlife Magazine (Issue 435, February 2018)* Futurists who have read too many comics and billionaire technologists fuel the human ego with visions of interstellar travel and terraforming the cold, dead dust of Mars. Theirs is a …

Animal diversity

The graphic below explores animal diversity with key information on each of the main lineages as well as how they are all related. 

Ctenophora

The Ctenophora is a small, but morphologically diverse lineage of animals. The graphic below is an introduction to these animals. A short …