It's always wonderful to gain new knowledge but it's a small surprise and I'm doubtful that there were many scoffers. The "genetic uniqueness of the then-unnamed frog, which until then was considered a southern leopard frog" by experts even though it differed visually with "subtly distinctive spots". It wasn't unknown to science, it was so closely related that it wasn't differentiated until two years ago. Equating this find to Sassy and skeptics the way you have seems disingenuous to me but I'd be in favor of using "comparing Sasquatch skeptics to Stan Norton's proposed but currently unknown skeptics of nearly visually identical yet genetically distinct leopard frogs previously lumped together by biologists and ecologists" rather than the tired "apples to oranges" to honor the discovery?