Encyclopedia of Life catalogues more than one-third of Earth’s species

Guardian: An ambitious attempt to create an encyclopedia of every known species on Earth has reached a major new milestone. The Encyclopedia of Life (EoL), a free and collaborative website, said on Monday it now has pages for each of 750,000 species, meaning more than one-third of all the planet's 1.9m species are now covered. "EoL is the ultimate online field guide for citizen scientists," said Jennifer Preece, dean of the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland. "There are many......

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