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Mon 08 Aug 2009Vast online book of life just keeps on growing
An online encyclopedia aiming to describe every type of animal and plant on the planet has reached 170,000 entries and is helping research into ageing, climate change and even the spread of insect pests.
The Encyclopedia of Life(www.eol.org), a project launched in 2007 likely to cost $100 million (€70 million), says it wants to describe all the 1.8 million known species – from apples to zebras – within a decade.
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