That’s what stuck out at me as well.
Too eager to classify and too eager to announce.
It makes it look like their desire to find the missing link to establish the ToE beyond the shadow of a doubt, is clouding their judgment.
A pattern of behavior going back to Piltdown and Bathybius. And even earlier, with, for example, Haeckel announcing and classifying creatures that existed only in his imagination.
Wonder if Ida was somebody’s lost pet?
Poor thing, lost in the rain-forest.
Thier judgement is clouded to begin with. When you ask an evolutionist about "missing links", he'll say there are no such things, because all fossils are transitionals. And then he'll go back to organizing public-relation campaigns and TV shows about the latest missing link.