And once again, given
the sheer number of planets in the universe, one would eventual end up like ours.
Not exact matches
The
sheer number of insects locked in the facility — the largest colony
of cockroaches ever to have existed on the
planet — conjures some nightmarish scenarios.
The extinction that ended the Devonian Era 359 million years ago created opportunities quickly exploited by a formerly rare and unremarkable group
of fish that went on to become — in terms
of the
sheer number of species — the most successful vertebrates (backboned animals) on the
planet today: the ray - finned fish.
Crustaceans claim top spot in the
sheer number of varieties among the
planet's ocean life, comprising almost a fifth
of the known species.
The world being what it is, the technological breakthroughs, the lifestyle opportunities, the rapidity
of change the education, stress, climate change, environmental degradation, the
sheer number of our one species on the face
of the
planet means we can not be complacent.