Comment by imzadi

8 hours ago

I've seen these images before, or some very similar images. So this is based on old photos or it has indeed been done before.

A lot of the PopSci sites rotate articles so that one will publish something followed by another some time later.

Also: "made their way down the nation’s eastern coast in June 2024", so it's possible the PopSci articles were based on early releases about this study and this is the actual study being finalized and released officially????