Advice on “science-speak”: When one sees weasel words such as “could,” “maybe,” “perhaps,” “might be,” “possibly,” and so on in a science article or in the underlying study, take 1 grain of salt with the article.
Yeah, Florida indeed could be millions of years older than previously thought. Or it could not. Maybe it is. Well, maybe it isn’t.
Beware of a subtle “science-speak” trick as well: At some point the “could” gets forgotten and becomes an “is” — with no actual new evidence to support the assertion, or any actual evidence; nothing.
To take everything with a grain of salt is something new to you?