Ancient Antarctic sea monster may have laid this football- egg

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Chilean scientists nicknamed the fossil "The Thing" after a 1982 sci-fi movie based in Antarctica.

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[Mike Whitaker]

This is my first post so please forgive my sense of humour. I loved the description of the discovery of the egg "Chilean researchers found the eggs-traordinary fossil " but what really got me tittering (chuckling), was this:

"The newfound egg, dubbed Antarcticoolithus bradyi (or "delayed Antarctic stone egg" in Greek), pushes the limits of how large scientists thought soft-shelled eggs could grow.

Is this a considered opinion reached by only large scientists, or are smaller scientists barred from voicing an opinion?

Ah well, I read it like that and thought it quite amusing being a height-challenged person myself.