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Every living thing, on one tree.

Every living thing on one tree, with you, a kangaroo and an oak tree placed on it, kingdom to species.

Reads alone from about 8; a parent reads the margin aloud before that.

Size

Prints in 2 to 5 business days, then 3 to 4 to your door. Shipping is $4.99 for an 18x24 and $7.99 for a 24x36, plus 40 cents for each poster after the first. US addresses only.

Checked by Rob Oller Edition 2026-10 Sources listed below

Tree Of Life Poster

in-frameThe poster in its 18x24 frame on a painted wall, straight on, whole frame in shot.

child-heightThe poster on a kid's bedroom wall, shot from a seven-year-old's eye height, a kid reading it.

margin-close-upThe margin facts, close, sharp enough to read, to show the type size and the paper.

unboxingThe kraft box as it arrives, and the rolled poster coming out of it.

Tree Of Life Poster $35 ยท 18x24

What Is On This Poster

8 facts

The facts this poster carries, so you can match it to what your kid is asking about before you buy.

  • Scientists sort living things into ranks: domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species.
  • A sentence to remember the order: Dear King Philip Came Over For Good Soup.
  • All life falls into three domains: Bacteria, Archaea and Eukarya (Carl Woese and colleagues, 1990).
  • About 2.2 million species have been named; there may be about 8.7 million kinds of plants, animals, fungi and protists.
  • You are Homo sapiens: Eukarya, Animalia, Chordata, Mammalia, Primates, Hominidae, Homo.
  • A red kangaroo shares your class, Mammalia, but sits in a different order, Diprotodontia; an oak tree (genus Quercus) parts ways with you at the kingdom.
  • Fungi are more closely related to animals than to plants.
  • Carl Linnaeus set out the two-part species name in the 1750s; Homo sapiens is his name for us, from 1758.

Sources

  • Woese, Kandler and Wheelis 1990, three domains (PNAS)
  • IUCN Red List described species, via Our World in Data
  • Mora et al. 2011, how many species are there?
  • The Linnean Society: naming nature
  • Australian Museum record: red kangaroo
  • Baldauf and Palmer 1993, animals and fungi

Every source for every poster, and every correction, is on the sources and corrections page.

Fits These Frames

in-frame-18x24The sample 18x24 in a standard 18x24 frame from a big-box store, the frame's brand visible on the back.

18 x 24 Inches

Fits a standard 18x24 frame, the usual size for art prints, sold at big-box stores.

Printed sizes can run a little over, so the design keeps everything that matters clear of the edge and the frame hides nothing.

in-frame-24x36The sample 24x36 in a standard 24x36 poster frame, on a wall, with a door or chair for scale.

24 x 36 Inches

The most common poster size in the US, and the one budget frames are made for. Readable from across a room.

The same margin rule: nothing important sits near the edge.

Paper

189 gsm Matte Paper

Thick, smooth and glare-free. Printful, who prints it, calls it museum-quality paper.

Ink

Epson UltraChrome GS3

Pigment ink Printful lists as GREENGUARD Gold certified. Deep blacks, which a night sky needs.

Box

Rolled In A Kraft Box

No plastic caps. Unroll it face up, lay a clean sheet of paper on it with a few books on top, and give it a night. Damaged on arrival, we send another.

The Question This Poster Answers

2026-10 What Are The Kingdoms Of Life? Five kingdoms, six, or three domains? How scientists sort every living thing. Tree Of Life Poster On the Tree Of Life poster

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