Odd Bacteria Location

    Scientists are always on the lookout for new species, it turns out that they have been ignoring a whole bunch close to our home- in our navels. Researchers at North Carolina State University began the Belly Button Biodiversity Project last year to learn more about the kinds of bacteria that grows on our skin. Scientists have already swabbed over 500 belly buttons and analyzed over 60 samples, the scientists were dumbfounded with the results. A total of 2,368 species were found, 1,458 of the samples may be new to science. Some of the bacteria that was found was downright strange: One man had a specie of bacteria in his belly button that was common in soil in Japan-where he'd never been; another person had hosted bacteria that usually lives/thrives in polar ice caps. The researchers want to collect thousands of belly button samples and sequence part of the bacterial DNA. That information may provide knowledge into the role of belly button bacteria play in our health.
    I find that it is astonishing that scientists can find bacteria in the oddest places in the human body. Will researches find a bacteria that could kill majority of the human population?Findings like these will always make me believe that we will never discover everything. We will never know what kind of creatures still live on this planet that has not be discovered yet. Yet again, these findings will make us keep looking. Maybe researchers will find a cure to a deadly disease or virus or maybe even worse. Some day we will be able to have technology that could or maybe discover what we have not discovered yet. For instance, space will never be fully discovered. Space will always be a mystery to the human kind.