The first 30,000 species of creatures and plants have been listed in the Encyclopedia of Life that contains all the key information about all life on Earth.

This internet encyclopedia aims to eventually list all 1.8 million known species of life in a 10-year project. The goal of this project is to make these information accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world.

The first version includes 25 fully completed entries which contains text, pictures and videos. It also has 30,000 entries with less details compared to the completed entries and 1,000,000 minimal pages.

Apart from increasing our knowledge of life on Earth, this is also a low cost and efficient way to provide individual researchers with information that they need.

The Encyclopedia of Life had so much traffic that the server crashed on its first day.

The project is led by the U.S. Field Museum, Harvard University, Marine Biological Laboratory, Missouri Botanical Garden, Smithsonian Institution, and Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Encyclopedia of Life