The Map Of Life

OneZoom is an interactive map which allows you lot to explore the consummate tree of life on Earth. The application uses an interactive map interface to visualize the evolutionary relationships betwixt all the species living on our planet.

Each leafage on the OneZoom tree of life represents an private species. The branches stand upwards for the lineage of these private species. The points where the dissimilar branches diverge on the tree of life present where dissimilar groups accept separate from 1 another. At each departure signal you lot tin move encounter the geologic fourth dimension of when it is believed this departure took place.

Red leaves on the OneZoom tree of life are those that are currently nether the threat of extinction. When you lot zoom downwardly to the private leafage of a species you lot tin move click on that leafage to acquire to a greater extent than nearly the selected brute from its Wikipedia entry.


If you lot desire to know where all this life lives on populace you lot tin move role the Map of Life which uses a geographical map to present where 937,810 species alive on Earth. Using the map you lot tin move unwrap which species alive at whatever location on the globe.

You tin move click anywhere on the Map of Life to stance a listing of species that alive at that location. You tin move thence click on whatever of the displayed species groups to stance a listing of the private animals inside that group. If you lot thence click on an private animal's mention you lot tin move stance a species attain map in addition to acquire to a greater extent than nearly the selected private brute from its Wikipedia entry.

The Map of Life is from the same developers who created OneZoom.