Posted: Apr 03, 2014 8:26 am
Matt_B wrote:Someone remind me just how many species of animals there are on the planet.
I'm pretty sure that it was a much bigger number than 35,000 when I last looked.
I understand there are an estimated 350,000 species just of beetles. Estimates of the global species count is somewhere around 8.7million of which 7.7 million are animals.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14616161.
Of course the physics department at Leicester University probably isn't too strong on animal husbandry. You might be able to pack 70,000 animals into a God-barge that size. They'd start to die pretty quickly though.