Saturday, December 8, 2012

Testing, One, Two, Three

The Tree of Life in an interesting layout, showing mass extinctions.  Not all extinct species are shown.  
Time from Earth-birth is radial, shown by concentric ovals.  Interesting to note how some families/phyla burst into radiance following a mass extinction of a predecessor.

The Great Tree of Life
Learn about infographics software.

If you click on the graphic you get a larger version in a separate window.   

2 comments:

  1. Took me a minute to figure out what it was saying, but very cool graphic - lots of information. But one wants it about the size of a bed sheet, to see all the detail.

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  2. Oh, my... that's a lovely way to visualize the information!

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