While attempting to escape through the walls of the cave, the woman died as the mine’s diamantine walls tore her flesh her to shreds and, when her blood combined with the diamonds, rubies formed.

If you look at it that way, you can reinterpret all the old evidence so that it supports the new theory.

[…] withall its food being flies and such as suddenly escape, it hath in the tongue a mucous and slymy extremity, whereby upon a sudden emission it inviscates and tangleth those insects.

Though initially adopting a hard-line stance, the politician soon started to backpedal.