ABC News reports that an effort to catalogue the world’s species has reached the one million count – or about 50% of what’s known.
This raises many interesting questions such as: how many are unknown? How many will never be known due to extinction? Does this project include the many uncultivable species of bacteria and archaea? Are there web resources where I can find out more?
However, this is ABC Science news and so consists of 7 lines, no useful information and no external links. “Those involved say it is like putting together a giant jigsaw puzzle.” How insightful. I wouldn’t be surprised if they said no such thing, since it makes no sense whatsoever. No, you’ll have to do your own web searching to find out more.
Update: try the Catalogue of Life website