Is it possible that there are animals on this planet that we have not discovered yet?

Question

if so why have we not discovered them with all the technology we have

Answer 1

Not only is it Possible, but it is a certainty. Technology doesn't make everything easy.

Answer 2

oh ya.they just found a tribe not known to people on the brazillian   border.i will bet the find a new animal in a year

Answer 3

Oh yah, but mostly smaller insect type creatures and fish VERY deep in the ocean.  Despite all our technology it's still a huge hassle to go to the deepest points in the ocean and then we can barely see anything.  I think a few years ago a previously unknown species of SQUID washed up somewhere from wayyyyyy deep down.

And despite our technologies, rainforests are still uncomfortable hotbeds of disease and danger so it's hard to go in looking for new bugs and the like

As far as large land walking mammals, it's possible we've seen them all simply because they're more conspicuous

Answer 4

Discovery at this point often involves actually recognizing that an animal is unique.  I don't expect many large animals to have gone unrecognized until now (no bigfoots out there), but for sure there are a lot of smaller animals and invertebrates that are not identified, and of course in the ocean depths every time we go looking, we find new stuff, so that is largely unexplored territory and a good place to expect to find new lifeforms.

Answer 5

yeah....there are many many species which r not discovered yet......do you know dat we know more about space than deep sea water and its life-- and there may be many organisms which exists but r not been discovered by us..and infact there can be numerous microbes which r not found by humans as they too small to be found but still they all play an important role in the ecosystem and and r a small part of nature.........

Answer 6

There are millions of insect species yet to be found.  

The ocean has more different life forms than on land and we have barely touched the oceans depths.  There are billions of people walking around on land and maybe tens of thousands investigating the oceans.

Answer 7

Definitely.

In Northern Australia they are discovering new species.

There are still many places unexplored.

They found natives in South America recently that we never knew about.

Answer 8

There are. The reason: we don't try.

Answer 9

What I think is that there are probably a lot of animals that we haven't discovered. The reason we haven't found them is because we spend a lot of time taking care of the animals that we have already discovered.