"The group was specifically searching for new viruses that contained RNA genetic material, stating that the scientific community understands relatively little about these kinds of viruses when it comes to the wider world." via RT Image by PIRO4D - Pixabay New categories introduced to capture the diversity of the newly discovered species! At least 5,500 new virus species have reportedly been found across the world's oceans in a major new discovery published by an international team of researchers in the Science journal on Thursday. The team stated that they had achieved this advance by using machine-learning analyses in tandem with traditional evolutionary trees to assess some 35,000 water samples from around the globe. The group was specifically searching for new viruses that contained RNA genetic material, stating that the scientific community understands relatively little about these kinds of viruses when it comes to the wider world. "Whereas DNA viruses are known to be abundant,