According to National Geographic, scientists have identified more than 1.2 million species of animal and plant life. What makes this statistic remarkable is not what we know, but what we don’t know—according to the same source, some 7.5 million species (or 86% of all life) are still unknown to us (source).
When I discovered this fun fact, I thought to myself, “How can they possibly know what we don’t know? I mean, if there are 7.5 million other species that we don’t know…