Why can't these weirdos just make up their mind and let things be?

>>5120041
Is this based on new material or is it paleofags debating fanfiction again?

>>5120041
This really doesn't seem like a nerf honestly. It's still a fuckoff huge marine lizard, just skinnier.

It's always
>fossils first discovered
>"IT WAS THE BIGGEST EVER, CHUNKY BOY, DON'T WANT TO SHRINK WRAP"
>grant money pours in
>five years later
>grad student needs to write a paper
>"Actually after calculations based on [extant animal, not the actual species in question], I have determined it was actually smaller and less chunky than the original estimate"
>everyone claps, grant money pours in
Academia is a scam.

>>5120041
>The giant lizard was built like a lizard and not like some kind of inbred whale hybrid
Say it ain't so!