Lalapalooza: Earth Holds 8.7M Species, Study Finds

Humanity shares the planet with roughly 8.7 million species, most of them still undiscovered, according to a new study. Researchers used complex mathematical models to tackle a question that has long puzzled scientists, identifying numerical patterns in data from 1.2 million known species, excluding viruses and microorganisms, reports…

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Lalapalooza: Earth Holds 8.7M Species, Study Finds

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