🦖 ANIMAL 3D — Site Introduction & Data/License Guide
ANIMAL 3D (animal.temwasseo.com) is an interactive 3D natural history encyclopedia covering 2,000 species—from Paleozoic trilobites and Mesozoic dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and marine reptiles to modern mammals, birds, marine life, and protected Korean wildlife—letting you explore evolutionary lineages and compare real body sizes at a true 1 m = 1 m scale next to a 1.75 m human.
Last updated: 2026-10-25
📚 Data & Image Sources and Licensing Principles
Wikipedia REST API (page summary) — Pre-fetched Excerpts
Wikipedia summary excerpts and article URLs on species pages are pre-collected and served from our server (with retrieval date shown). Your browser never connects directly to Wikipedia.
https://{ko|en}.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/summary/{Title}
Summary text: CC BY-SA 4.0 — displayed alongside a link to the original Wikipedia article
Wikimedia Commons API (imageinfo · extmetadata) — Verified Author & License
Each photo's author (Artist) and license (LicenseShortName · LicenseUrl) are verified at collection time and stored on our server. Only PD, CC0, CC BY, and CC BY-SA images are shown with full attribution and source links.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=imageinfo&iiprop=extmetadata
Follows each image's license (NC, ND, and all-rights-reserved images are excluded)
PhyloPic — Silhouette Illustrations (Pre-fetched Files)
Silhouettes on the size comparison stage and 3D badges come from artists on PhyloPic. When an exact species silhouette is unavailable, a close genus or family silhouette is used and noted, and CC BY works credit the artist and license.
https://www.phylopic.org
Per-illustration license: CC0 1.0 · Public Domain Mark 1.0 · CC BY 3.0/4.0 (NC/SA excluded)
Wikidata — Scientific & Multilingual Names (Pre-fetched Snapshot)
Each species is matched by scientific name (P225) to its Wikidata item to verify QID, taxonomic rank, and Japanese/Chinese names, with a QID link on the species source line.
https://www.wikidata.org
CC0 1.0
IUCN Red List — Reference & Verification (Not Live-Linked)
Conservation status of extant species is listed using IUCN Red List categories (LC · NT · VU · EN · CR · DD); species not evaluated by IUCN are marked NE. Check the official site for the latest assessment.
https://www.iucnredlist.org
Factual status code only · No redistribution of IUCN datasets
Measurements (Length · Height · Mass · Speed) — Editorial Compilation
Representative estimates compiled from widely cited encyclopedias and museum references; figures may vary by specimen and study. Unverified figures are shown as 'No data'.
Report corrections: temwasseo@gmail.com
💡 Real-Life Examples of How This Atlas Works
- 🪙 Just like placing a coin or ruler next to an object in a photo for scale, this atlas places every animal beside a 1.75 m person at an exact 1 m = 1 m scale.
- 📏 Tyrannosaurus rex: Length 12.3m — ~1× the length of a 12 m coach bus
- ⚖️ Blue Whale: Mass 170t — Equivalent to ~170 compact cars (~1 t each)
Figures are converted from each species page using standard everyday benchmarks (e.g. a highway coach ~12 m, a compact car ~1 t).