• notfromhere@lemmy.ml
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    13 days ago

    known only from a single specimen, described in 2012.

    Could they have just fabricated it? Has there been any observations of the specimen since?

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      13 days ago

      possibly, though if they did it was likely accidental

      I looked at some of the TEM photos and it certainly looks to me like what they’re describing is all there (or not there). The prep and imaging looks high quality also, so I personally doubt it’s a prep or imaging artifact. But I’m far from an expert, just know a bit of cell TEM from the one project I did a few years ago