8.74 million species on Earth
Posted by staff / August 24, 2011
Census time again, but don’t look for a form in the mailbox. This census estimated the number of species on Earth.
Eight million, seven hundred and four thousand eukaryote species share this planet, give or take 1.3 million. Eukaryotes have cells with nuclei and other membrane bound structures, which means bacteria and other simple organisms were excluded from the count.
Full story at Discovery News.
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Jain Literature of centuries and centuries ago states its 8.4 mn living species on the earth.