Yale Researchers Create Map of Undiscovered Life

The New Map of Undiscovered Species
March 31, 2021

“Less than a decade after unveiling the “Map of Life,” a global database that marks the distribution of known species across the planet, Yale researchers have launched an ambitious and perhaps even more important project — creating a map of where life has yet to be discovered.” To learn more, please click here for an article published by Yale News. 

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