Exhibit, the fact that it's 2021 and we just identified a new orca culture. Orcas (sometimes called killer whales) have distinct groups with their own language and culture...and we were missing one completely.
Evidence indicates that this new group, which we might call an ethnicity or a tribe if they were humans, live further out than most orcas and are big game hunters, going after young whales and elephant seals.
(How intelligent are orcas? We don't know, but it's entirely possible they may be sapient).
Oh, wait. We may have missed two. There might be another group that lives even further out. Maybe.
Point is?
The ocean is dang big and we still don't know everything about it.
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