I take pretty much anything posted on tabloid sites with a grain of salt, especially when it comes to science popularisation. I suspect that the above, like all such clickbate, is blown out of all the proportion to get the most traffic. Particularly, since body's postmortem movement is not news and has been extensively popularised in crime dramas and literature. What's different about this is that it appears to have been unintentionally documented in time lapse photography.
This is the original study published by Alyson Wilson amongst others -
https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...89871X19301421. Until there is a separate study published on the changes to the body's placement, I'll consider the "significance" referenced in the Yahoo link and its sister articles to be taken out of context.
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What's different about this is that it appears to have been unintentionally documented in time lapse photography.
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Nope, reading more even that doesn't seem all that novel.