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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 .
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The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans, an essay on hunting published in 1486 and attributed to Juliana Berners. [1] Most terms used here may be found in common dictionaries and general information web sites. [2] [3] [4
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.
1. Narwhals. Narwhals are known as the "unicorns of the sea" due to their long, spiral-like tusks, which are actually elongated teeth. These mysterious marine mammals inhabit Arctic waters and use ...
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