That is their main job and supposedly this is one of the showpieces demonstrating Darwinian evolution. Not only were the dots connected in the wrong order, the dots were not even "connected". But that is not really the problem. The problem is their inability to step back and ponder where they have gone wrong.
Believe me, there is some young, upstart paleontologist wanting to make a name for himself that is pondering this whale of a problem even as we speak.