Phylo is an interactive map of the tree of life. Start at the nine kingdoms and open it branch by branch, through phyla, classes, orders, families and genera, down to millions of species. TWO TREES • Ranks: the classic Linnaean classification from the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, about 4.5 million taxa. • Clades: the evolutionary tree from the Open Tree of Life, built from thousands of published phylogenies, where every group is a whole branch. Here birds sit inside the reptiles and whales inside the hoofed mammals. • Groups that aren't natural, and natural groups the ranks hide, are marked and explained. THREE VIEWS • A zoomable radial tree in 2D. • An orbitable tree in 3D. • A globe of where an organism has been recorded, with a timeline back 540 million years to the continents as they were and the fossils found there. LOOK CLOSER • Search any organism by common or scientific name, or tap Surprise me for a random species. • Each one opens with its photo and summary from Wikipedia, its full lineage, and its children. • Genomes from NCBI: genome size, chromosomes and genes on a scale from viruses to lungfish. • Real DNA barcode genes as a turning double helix, and a 3D animation of a gene being copied, translated and folded into its protein. • How related? Pick any two organisms to see the last group they share, when their lineages split, and how much of their DNA matches. QUIZ Name the kingdom, phylum, class, order or family of real species across four difficulties, or play the Genes round on genome sizes, gene counts and closest relatives. Best scores are saved on your device. ASK PHYLO An optional chat guide powered by Claude can explain any classification, look things up and open them in the tree for you. It asks before sending anything, and answers can be wrong. No account, no ads, no tracking. Data: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, Open Tree of Life, Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), NCBI, UniProt, AlphaFold, TimeTree and the Paleobiology Database. None of these organisations endorses Phylo.
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