'Paraparticles' Would Be a Third Kingdom of Quantum Particle

> If paraparticles exist, they’ll most likely be emergent particles, called quasiparticles

So are these just a new flavor of quasiparticle, like an electron “hole”, or are they possibly real particles? The article seems contradictory.

They can definitely arise as quasi particles.

It's not impossible that there could also be fundamental particles with this property. It would require some new symmetry to be found, for which there is currently no evidence, but it might be found be reconsidering existing data.

Right now they are neither a real particle or quasiparticle. They are a hole in a "theorem" that was previously thought to close off our imagination to new basic categories of particles.