• Question: how many water creatures are there? and are there many undiscovered species underwater?

    Asked by jump45day to Souvik, Sabine, Maria, Armin on 21 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Maria McNamara

      Maria McNamara answered on 21 Nov 2019:


      This is hard to quantify. We have described up to 250,000 marine species, but it’s estimated that there are many millions more – potentially up to 10 million more – that have not yet been discovered.

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