• frongt@lemmy.zip
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    1 month ago

    And most importantly, major publications are specifically not framing this as a discovery, but as a documentation.

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      1 month ago

      Yes, they discovered that it was a new species. If I had a rock on my desk for 20 years then one day ran a test that discovered it was a new element, I could say I discovered a new element even though I knew the rock existed.