You might well be undercounting there, according to a 2016 study[0]: > Earth could contain nearly 1 trillion species, with only one-thousandth of 1 percent now

You might well be undercounting there, according to a 2016 study[0]: > Earth could contain nearly 1 trillion species, with only one-thousandth of 1 percent now identified, according to a study from biologists. The estimate is based on the intersection of large datasets and universal scaling laws. [0]: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160502161058.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160502161058.h...