Tree of life-interactive (Biology)

Orionaut · 14 Nov 2016 at 11:39

I have just been sent this link by an old school friend

http://www.onezoom.org/

It is an interactive "Tree of Life" presentation, I have only just begun to explore it but it looks very good.

Oh, and just for fun (though I am sure many will have seen this before)

This one is interesting too

http://scaleofuniverse.com/

Enjoy. :cool:

413x · 14 Nov 2016 at 11:45

Thank you. This is awesome.
Have always loved nature, and biology. Haven't seen the tree of life in this interactive method before.

Diagro · 14 Nov 2016 at 12:03

wonderful. Thats my day gone

HEADRAT · 14 Nov 2016 at 13:02

Amazing

Cosimo · 14 Nov 2016 at 13:09

Excellent! Thanks for sharing.

Orionaut · 14 Nov 2016 at 18:37

The thing that always gets me about this sort of presentation is how pretty much everything that we recognise of our world (Plants, Animals, Fungi) are but a tiny splinter on a twig right at the end of a very small branch of the very much larger tree!

In a similar vein, I am reminded of reading that in the aftermath of the Mt St Helens eruption. Bacteria that had only previously been seen around Black Smokers were discovered in Spirit lake.

The uncomfortable and astonishing implication is that these bacteria live deep beneath the earth's crust and are brought to the surface by volcanic activity.

Forget life on Mars/Europa just for one minute. there would appear to be a whole world of utterly alien life right here on earth that we actually know very little, if anything, about!

:eek:

Art · 14 Nov 2016 at 19:31

Orionaut said:
The uncomfortable and astonishing implication is that these bacteria live deep beneath the earth's crust and are brought to the surface by volcanic activity.

Microbes have been isolated from samples taken more than 2.5 Km below the surface. There is probably a lot of stuff going on down there which we don't know about. Extremophiles are awesome things: a friend of mine has taken chunks of salt from a salt mine, sterilised the outside of it and then isolated microbes from within them. The geologists say that the salt deposit formed at least two hundred million years ago, so the microbes have probably been trapped in the salt since then. There is a surprising amount of life in environments which would rapidly kill most living things.

itchy · 14 Nov 2016 at 19:35

An interesting link.

I thought my acid days where over. :eek:

I stopped at penis worms as I have a bad enough day as it is.

Orionaut · 14 Nov 2016 at 19:38

itchy said:
I thought my acid days where over.

It is clearly intended to be somewhat Mandelbrot.

But then, of course, a lot of life is...

:cool:

itchy · 14 Nov 2016 at 19:50

Orionaut said:
It is clearly intended to be somewhat Mandelbrot.

But then, of course, a lot of life is...

I used to always play with a Mandelbrot program on my Amiga.

Fractals are the key to life, existence and the universe.

Hades · 14 Nov 2016 at 21:24

Came into thread thinking this was about the Tree of Life from the series Soulmates.

Left disappointed