Discover Life

Our web tools can benefit you and your projects. Teachers can design hands-on ecological research projects for the schoolyard or local park without killing specimens. Park managers can track migrations of invasive species. Scientists can map large collections and present information about species. Amateur naturalists can upload images and make a li... fe list of species they find. Environmental educators can build online field guides so simple they can be used even by the youngest beginner. Everyone can benefit in some way from a partnership with Discover Life. With our powerful integrated web tools, you can: Keep a life list - store your photographic (or video/audio) records of natural history. It's your own electronic nature journal - this is a service somewhat like Flickr or Picasa web albums, but linked to species information, map data and more. You can keep thousands of photographs and other data on our site for free, and store associated information as well. To see examples of stored photographs, click here . Map species you find - every time you enter locality data to one of your photo records, it will instantly map as a point on the Global Mapper . This works similarly to Google Earth, but our mapper is capable of mapping many more points, each of them attached to an individual record of species occurrence. Monitor species locations - You can enter a species name on the Global Mapper and it will show all the points where we and our partners have records for that species - each of the points on a species map is a live link to species occurrence, with photo or other record. For an example, click here for a map of the common honeybee, Apis mellifera. Learn about species - Discover Life is an online encyclopedia of life, with over a million species pages, many with photos, information, and links to more info on other sites. You can access this information via the search box on the home page , via " All Living Things " or if you are unsure of the identification, using the IDnature Guides . Here is a species ...Read More