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Fulmarus glacialis (Linnaeus, 1761) Noddy	Bufo viridis Laurenti, 1768 European Green Toad	Clupeoides borneensis Bleeker, 1851 Borneo river sprat	Acanthurus mata (Cuvier, 1829) Elongate surgeonfish	Pterocaesio tessellata Carpenter, 1987 One-stripe fusilier	Symphurus atricaudus (Jordan & Gilbert, 1880) California tonguefish

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The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is an ambitious project to organize and make available via the Internet virtually all information about life present on Earth. At its heart lies a series of Web sites—one for each of the approximately 1.8 million known species. Each site is constantly evolving and features dynamically synthesized content ranging from historical literature and biological descriptions to stunning images, videos and distribution maps. Join us as we explore the richness of Earth’s biodiversity!

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November 13, 2008 - Watch the CBS News Sunday Morning Segment on the EOL (originally aired in October 2008).
November 12, 2008 - The Census of Marine Life announces many new species discoveries.
November 10, 2008 - Scientists in the remote Bale mountains of southern Ethiopia are in a race against time to save the world's rarest wolf.
October 27, 2008 - Thousands of jellyfish cause a nuclear reactor to shut down.
October 24, 2008 - Read the interview With E.O. Wilson, the Father of the Encyclopedia of Life, conducted by David Pogue for the CBS Sunday Morning show run on October 19, 2008.
October 23, 2008 - A bar-tailed godwit (genus Limosa) was recently observed to have flown 6,230 miles non-stop across the Pacific.
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