and just like that, a whole new species

This shouldn't be all that surprising, but stuff like this always blows my mind. Japanese researchers have discovered a new species of whale. Now obviously, there's a ton of species that haven't been recognized or described yet. Biology as we know it hasn't been around for all that long. But the vast majority of those species are tiny things.

This is a whale.

Recorded human knowledge has thus far completely missed a forty-foot whale that's been swimming around for eons. If that's not humbling, I don't know what is.