We have found a LOT of previously unseen species in the last 150 years. No satisfactory evidence that they’re “transitional”, but neither is there evidence they aren’t. I’ve not heard anyone suggest my pet theory that at least some of them are really new species as contrasted with merely undiscovered throughout human history.
Discovering new species in places unknown is not finding transitional species and these were absolutely not transitional or they would have been given the Nobel.
Glad you are so willing to accept anything they throw at you without question. Real scientific.
“I’ve not heard anyone suggest my pet theory that at least some of them are really new species as contrasted with merely undiscovered throughout human history.”
Well, since we don’t know all the existing species (and how could we be certain if we ever did find them all?), it would seem impossible to distinguish a new species from one that was simply undiscovered.
You could say “well there is no fossil record of this species”, but preservation is so rare that we can’t expect all species to necessarily be represented that way.