Within each group, they identified the biggest, smallest and most common body size ... These groups collectively dwarf the biomass of animals such as humans, livestock and wild terrestrial ...

Of the 550 gigatons of biomass carbon on Earth, animals make up about 2 gigatons ... This isn’t the first such estimate, but it is likely the most accurate. In recent years, improvements ...

Refinements to the biomass retrieval algorithm have resulted in a dataset that delivers more consistent and reliable information across the world's forest biomes—though it remains most accurate ...