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I bet indigenous peoples knew about it at certain points.
Indigenous People: "Hello? Why hey, strangers, who are-"
Capt. Cook or some shit: "Hey there, you fellas good at working? Like, lots of manual labor?"
Indigenous People: "uhh... Wut?"
Capt Cook: "F it. Take the women, take their food, burn the rest."
Indigenous People: "Bro, hold up, we got this bug that looks like a sti-"
Capt Cook: "BURN IT ALL. NOW!"
Indigenous People: He'll never know about that really big F'in stick bug!
Captain Christopher Cooklumbus: "You don't want to work, huh? How about if we cut off your hands?"
"I mean, it's not like you're using them anyway? Amiright?"
Hands, schmands!
"A new species discovered" means "hey, we noticed nobody ever catalogued that one!"
Yeah! And, I don't even necessarily mean to discount ignoring indigenous folks, which definitely can be a thing, but it really really does come down to sometimes folks just don't write it down. I've seen a video (I wanna say a Smarter Everyday video) where they were in some South American jungle/rain forest or whatever and they very casually shine a light at a cloth to get moths to land on it, and they found like one or two new species.
Wasn't that Standupmaths?
Could be, that's another channel I watch often. I might be getting some of Smarter Everyday's other nature oriented videos confused because I don't think Standup Maths does many.