“Everything that is alive, or has ever been alive has a place somewhere on the complete tree of life. Each leaf represents a different species and the branches show how they are evolved from common ancestors over billions of years. Our vision for OneZoom is to do for the tree of life what online mapping tools have done for the globe; to make the complete tree of life a public good at everyone’s fingertips, free of charge and free of advertising. The OneZoom software allows you to explore the tree of life in a completely new way that is similar to viewing a geographical map. This is done using techniques from a branch of mathematics known as fractal geometry, which enable us to condense the entire tree of life into a single page. OneZoom is so named because all the information is on one page, all you have to do is zoom to reveal further details. We hope you have fun exploring the OneZoom tree of life. We’ve certainly had fun developing it, even after many thousands of hours working with OneZoom, we are still frequently astonished at what it reveals about the world around us. Most of our source code is publicly viewable enabling interested developers and scientists to contribute improvements if they wish…”