Is there any articles available on the subject? My instinct is that in the two questions above, it should be 'are' as the subjects of the sentences (questions/articles) are plural.
grammar - "Is there" versus "Are there" - English Language & Usage ...
It came from an episode of Big Bang Theory; when Penny gets hurt, and asks Sheldon to be more comforting, he starts the conversation with "there, there." What does that mean?
11 There are so many questions on this website. There is so many questions on this website. The former "sounds right," but the contracted form of the latter does as well: There's so many questions on this website. Which is correct?
grammatical number - "There are so many" vs. "There is so many ...
If there is no place like X, what exactly is X? Your first meaning would be the one assumed to be understood, unless context ( 'Don't be silly! There is no place like Mordor.') demanded otherwise.
There is also a similar look phrase "the number of X". In contrast to "a number of", "the number of" is the subject of the phrase, and all the time it represents to a number, like 8 or 11.
This question isn't asking whether it's okay to use there's instead of there're. It's asking whether it's okay to use there're instead or there are - and rightly or wrongly I'm assuming he says it like that anyway, and simply wants to know if it's okay to reflect this in the written form.
Thus both "there are more than one species" and "there is more than one species" are equally correct (though have subtly different meanings), but the latter sounds better since it is more what we're used to hearing.