Brontosaurus deniers are losing. What about the settled science?
“Brontosaurus deniers are losing. What about the settled science?”
There is no such thing as settled science. If it is science, it can never be settled. Real science can only demonstrate improved and improving observations of phenomena and conjecture with proposed future observations leading to more reliable observations.
In the case of the Brontosaurus, the acquisition of additional evidence made it possible to observe previously unobserved characteristics in the fossil evidence. Consequently, it is now possible to observe enough differences to differentiate the Brontosaurus from the Aptosaurus in their biological classifications. There is nothing Earth shattering about discovering previously unseen fossils. The only thing remarkable about such a find is longstanding popularity of the depictions of the Brontosaurus in the media for more than a century.