[Dog Gone]

I haven't read the periodicals you've named but won't link.

I read the story as presented. The story indicates a lack of planning. Maybe the story is wrong. Maybe it's right.

You won't provide any evidence from the periodicals you read that support you. Why is that?

I mean, you're so well read, and feel fully qualified to push my face in the dirt for questioning what I read in this post, let's see it!

Show us that the article posted here is wrong.

[muawiyah]

It's a typical "progress piece" ~ generally there's no need to provide a complete who-struck-john scenario when your audience is only interested in what happened today.

If I've been following this story in other science journals, why shouldn't the folks reading that be doing the same.

Why is it you didn't already know about this?

[muawiyah]

Lot of stuff going on in Midwestern research that you just aren't aware of it appears. Try this article: http://www.earth.columbia.edu/news/2003/story05-02-03.html