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Say It With Us: Paola Nogales-Ascarrunz (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 15 points 6 days ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 6 points 5 days 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.

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