• Question: Is there lots of animals that we havent discovered yet?

    Asked by Eloise M-G ;) to Anna, George, Rob, Stefan on 20 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Anna Scaife

      Anna Scaife answered on 20 Nov 2014:

      Hey Eloise – on land there are probably a few. Local environment can be really important for evolution and there are definitely pockets of the world which are still under explored. The other place we could find new species is at the bottom of the oceans – we’ve only explored about 5% of the Earth’s oceans (mostly the bits near the surface). The deep oceans could still contain lots of new species that we don’t know about yet!

    • Photo: Stefan Lines

      Stefan Lines answered on 20 Nov 2014:

      I think it is estimate we have discovered only one quarter of all the animals on the planet.

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