My research rarely involves describing new species or working out the relationships between them. Still, I have been a part of teams that have discovered new lineages of various organisms:

• Novel microbiome within buried dinosaur bone: 46 genomes from six bacterial phyla (Actinobacteria, Proteobacteria, Nitrospira, Acidobacteria, Gemmatimonadetes, Chloroflexi) and one archaeal phylum (Thaumarchaeota), the majority of which represented uncultivated, novel microbial lineages from class to species levels (Liang et al. 2020, Environmental Microbiome).