Wikijunior:Life/Today/Introduction

There are lots and lots of living things. They come in all shapes and sizes.

Just think about spiders. People have counted nearly forty thousand (40,000)

different kinds of spiders in the world.

Then there are different sorts of beetles.

There are at least a quarter of a million of them (250,000).

There are all sorts of different fishes and birds.

There are all the different kinds of plants.