From the website:
OneZoom is committed to heightening awareness about the diversity of life on earth, its evolutionary history and the threats of extinction. This website allows you to explore the tree of life in a completely new way: it’s like a map, everything is on one page, all you have to do is zoom in and out. OneZoom also provides free, open source, data visulation tools for science and education, currently focusing on the tree of life.
This is wicked cool! Be sure to watch the video introduction. You will be able to navigate without it but there are hidden bells and whistles.
Should provoke all sort of ideas about visualizing and exploring data.
See also: OneZoom: A Fractal Explorer for the Tree of Life (Rosindell J, Harmon LJ (2012) OneZoom: A Fractal Explorer for the Tree of Life. PLoS Biol 10(10): e1001406. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001406) for more details on the project.
I first saw this at Science Daily: Tree of Life Branches out Online.