| What is it with articles like these still using language like "discovered" > Guided by tips from fishermen, scientists from Colegio de le Frontera Sur explored a tropical estuary off the southeastern coast > the scientists names their new discovery the Taam ja' Blue Hole, using the Mayan language phrase Clearly the locals have known about this already. If your argument is that the difference is when it's published in some scientific paper then that's also contradictory to: > the new blue hole was discovered in 2021, the researchers only recently detailed their findings in a study published in Frontiers in Marine Science "Discovered in 2021" pretty obviously means Western people here. If it was about "scientific description" then we would've said 2023. It reminds me of that one white person that traveled to Mexico and "discovered" a variety of corn that produces a mucus-like goo that traps nitrogen from the air itself instead of using bacteria. This variety had an indigenous name and the people who've been growing it for thousands of years could trace back their entire lineage of people who've developed the variety specifically to grow in those low-nitrogen conditions |
Though I wouldn't dismiss any relevance of the year 2021, as that was when the scientists did their field work. Imagine another team did study the same hole in 2022 but published earlier, then that would be relevant.