Discover Life is a portal to information about all the world's living things. By simply clicking on a photograph you can examine the taxonomy, natural history, distribution, abundance, and ecology of insects, spiders, plants, fungi, birds, mammals and many more. This information can be very useful in education and enjoyable to kids.
Discover Life Home Page
The National Biological Information Infrastructure, with a team of contributors, now offer information on over a quarter-million species through Discover Life, hoping to catalog a million species by 2012.
The All Living Things Encyclopedia
The Global Mapper web tool has an easy interface that enables you to compare distributional information on a large selection of satellite images, maps, and aerial photographs.
IDnature Guides Home Page
Another goal of Discover Life is to develop an efficient label and database network that uses secure, globally unique identifiers because no standard method of labeling mounted specimens, microscope slides, DNA samples, photographs, virtual images, sound recordings, etc. exists, keeping track of individual items is inefficient and often impossible. Only a small fraction of the estimated 3 billion museum and herbaria specimens are labeled with specimen-level identifiers.
Discover Life encourages students to use the photographs in class projects. However, all rights are reserved by the photographers, artists, and authors.
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