This is really exciting. Essentially, several natural history institutions around the world are attempting to assemble a web-based encyclopedia of all life on Earth, with both scientists and the general public in mind. The video is an intoxicating bit vapor cooked up by a design firm, but the money and the people behind the project seem real. I have dreamed about something like this for a long time. I can’t wait for it to be real.

The video also has some really interesting phylogenetic tree visualizations. I never though about navigating a tree in a tilted perspective view like that. Very cool.