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  2. Lists of organisms by population - Wikipedia

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    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]

  3. Global biodiversity - Wikipedia

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    A May 2016 study based on scaling laws estimated that 1 trillion species (overwhelmingly microbes) are on Earth currently with only one-thousandth of one percent described, [28] [29] though this has been controversial and a 2019 study of varied environmental samples of 16S ribosomal RNA estimated that there exist 0.8-1.6 million species of ...

  4. Biodiversity - Wikipedia

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    Estimates on the number of Earth's current species range from 10 million to 14 million, of which about 1.2 million have been documented and over 86% have not yet been described. [129] However, a May 2016 scientific report estimates that 1 trillion species are currently on Earth, with only one-thousandth of one percent described. [ 130 ]

  5. If Humans Die Out, Octopuses Already Have the Chops to ... - AOL

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    As scientists have discerned from fossil records, species on Earth have already passed through five mass extinction events in the planet’s lifetime, including the last mass extinction roughly 65 ...

  6. List of marsupials by population - Wikipedia

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    Common name Scientific name IUCN Red List status Trend Global population estimate (year) Population notes Range Image Common wombat: Vombatus ursinus: LC >915,090 (2020) [1]: Only includes subpopulations from three islands (Maria, Flinders, and Tasmania) of two subspecies (V. u. ursinus and V. u. tasmaniensis).

  7. List of extinction events - Wikipedia

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    Period or supereon Extinction Date Probable causes [2]; Quaternary: Holocene extinction: c. 10,000 BC – Ongoing: Humans [3]: Quaternary extinction event: 640,000 ...

  8. Life on Our Planet - Wikipedia

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    Life on Our Planet is an American television nature documentary series released on Netflix and produced by Amblin Television and Silverback Films.Executive-produced by Steven Spielberg and narrated by Morgan Freeman, the series focuses on the evolutionary history of complex life on Earth.

  9. Outline of life forms - Wikipedia

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    A life form (also spelled life-form or lifeform) is an entity that is living, [1] [2] such as plants , animals , and fungi . It is estimated that more than 99% of all species that ever existed on Earth, amounting to over five billion species, [3] are extinct. [4] [5] Earth is the only celestial body known to harbor life forms. No form of ...