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Welcome to Our Natural Planet
The natural world on planet Earth is a really fascinating place. The sheer number of different species of animals, birds, reptiles amd insects marks our planet as really very special.
Yet our world is miniscule compared to the Universe that we live in! Find out more about the planet that you live on. Find out more about our solar system and the galaxy that we live in. And find out more about the universe that our galaxy is in, a universe that is so big that it is impossible to imagine the size of it!
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 Hubble gas cloud credit:NASA, ESA and J. Hester (ASU) |
On planet Earth we have continents, oceans, mountains and deserts! Our planet is teeming with life. Animals, fish, insect, bugs, plants, trees and birds are all part of our world. Over 95% of the species on Earth are insects and there are at least one million different insect species. There are believed to be many thousands more species that have yet to be discovered!
 African elephant Kenya Author: Ltshears
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 Southern Screamer Author: Ltshears
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This website can only present a fraction of what is on our planet. But we hope that what we can do here will stimulate you to investigate further.
