• Question: is there animals,bacteria and atoms in the world that we dont know about yet?

    Asked by anon-200513 to Rosemary, Leigh, Jordan, Hannah, David on 13 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Jordan Kirby

      Jordan Kirby answered on 13 Mar 2019:

      Hey EA-MM135
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      On the bacteria and animal side of things absolutely! The biodiversity of bacteria in our ecosystems are incredibly rich so much that new species of bacteria are being discovered daily! Animalwise im sure one of my friends who studied zoology told me that new insects are constantly being discovered around the world.
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      Now as for atoms/elements we discover these alot less frequently mainly because we have already found every naturally occouring elements (Oliver if you are reading this please step into confirm this 😛). The new elements that are discovered these days are synthesized by humans in particle accelerators. These superheavy elements tend to be really unstable and only exist for a fraction of a second (when they decay into more stable elements) which makes detecting them quite difficult!
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      Hope this helps!

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