A look at Earth’s biomass distributed between taxa.

Plants dominate accounting for >82% of biomass, followed by bacteria at 13%. The entire animal kingdom only makes up 0.4% & humans alone are just 0.01%. https://ourworldindata.org/life-on-earth #science #nature

Credit: Our World in Data using research by Bar-On et al. (2018). Biomass is measured in tonnes of carbon.

Humans make up just 0.01% of Earth's life — what's the rest?

How is life on Earth distributed across the taxonomic kingdoms? Humans make up just 0.01% of life: but we've had much larger impacts on shaping the animal kingdom. Livestock now outweighs wild mammals and birds ten-fold.

Our World in Data

@Sheril

*pumping fist in the air*

Arth! Ro! Pods!
Arth! Ro! Pods!

Let's go exo-legs!
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Let's go exo-legs!
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I mean... plants are cool too. But, most of the little minds are probably ant minds.

@Sheril

my husband: I don't think it's a competition
me: Ants win! the ants win!

@futurebird @Sheril

Most of the little minds are Republicans. The rest may be ants.