Actually a majority of the morphs have been found present in the wild, although not a population pertaining to one morph. Some of the morphs may depend on the location in africa where the ball python is found. With other species of animals in the world and when a small colony of this species gets seperate they evolve to compensate the environment (darwin and his finches). I know it seems like a lot of ball morphs out there, but it really isn't that much if you think about it like this. Think of morphs in balls as birth defects in humans both caused by so called "unstable genes". No take this concept and induce inbreeding to make sure that those genes stay unstable, now think of all the vast possiblities of what can occur when bred together. I think new ball morphs will continue to show up for some time (especially now that we are artifically simulating breeding that would probably never occur in the wild; albino spiders, pastel ghosts,etc.). The possibilities are endless. It is like looking into a crayon box, all those colors you see originated out of under 10 colors. Same for ball morphs, you mix and match to get what you want and hope the offspring are stable enough to be fertile.

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