Another French encyclopedia holds that the German temperament generally can be described as the deep and diverse action of romanticism on German musicians, and that there is only one true representative of Romanticism in French music, Hector Berlioz, while in Italy, the sole great name of musical Romanticism is Giuseppe Verdi, a sort of [Victor] Hugo of opera, gifted with a real genius for dramatic effect.
Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent. Tuesday 23 August 2011 17.00 EDT First published on Tuesday 23 August 2011 17.00 EDT. Humans share the planet with as many as 8.7 million different forms of life, according to what is being billed as the most accurate estimate yet of life on Earth.
It is estimated that around 9 or 10 million species of animals inhabit the earth; the exact number is not known and all estimates are rough. Animals range in size from no more than a few cells to organisms weighing many tons, such as the giant squid. By far most species of animals are insects, with groups such as mollusks, crustaceans, and nematodes also being especially diverse. By this measure our own group, the vertebrates, is relatively inconsequential from a diversity perspective. All animals are members of the Kingdom Animalia, also called Metazoa.