Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
More than 99 percent of all species, amounting to over five billion species, [7] that ever lived on Earth are estimated to be extinct. [8] [9] Estimates on the number of Earth's current species range from 10 million to 14 million, [10] of which about 1.2 million have been documented and over 86 percent have not yet been described. [11]
List of marsupials by population – Wombats, koalas and kangaroos. List of lagomorphs by population – rabbits, hares, and pikas. List of other Afrotheres by population – seacows, sengis, golden moles, otter shrews, tenrecs, hyraxes and the aardvark. List of rodents by population – cavies, squirrels, springhares, mice, beaver etc.
Common name Binomial name Population Status Trend Notes Image Hainan black crested gibbon: Nomascus hainanus: 20–50 [1]: CR [1] [1]Population was estimated at over 2,000 in the late 1950s.
The siphonophore takes one of the top spots for the most bizarre animals in the world. These creatures are one of the longest animals on Earth, spanning up to 160 feet! They live in the deep sea ...
Over 1.5 million living animal species have been described—of which around 1 million are insects—but it has been estimated there are over 7 million in total. Animals range in size from 8.5 millionths of a metre to 33.6 metres (110 ft) long and have complex interactions with each other and their environments, forming intricate food webs .
Insects make up the vast majority of animal species. [14]Chapman, 2005 and 2009 [9] has attempted to compile perhaps the most comprehensive recent statistics on numbers of extant species, drawing on a range of published and unpublished sources, and has come up with a figure of approximately 1.9 million estimated described taxa, as against possibly a total of between 11 and 12 million ...
75% of the tigers in the world belongs to India. 13 countries including India, Bangladesh, Myanmmar, Bhutan, China, Russia have taken a misson to double the worldwide tiger population by the year 2022. [26] Island fox: Urocyon littoralis: 4,001 [27] NT [27] Sunda clouded leopard: Neofelis diardi: 4,500 [28] VU [28] [28] Maximum estimate. [6 ...
List of individual apes; Oldest hominids; List of individual bears. List of giant pandas; List of individual birds; List of individual cats. List of longest-living cats; List of individual dogs. List of longest-living dogs; List of individual elephants; List of historical horses; List of individual bovines; List of individual cetaceans. List of ...