Tag: hoax
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PBS Eons: The Unsolved Case of a Fake Human Fossil
PBS Eons has a new episode over on Youtube. This one is about the Piltdown Man hoax, which is still a mystery. This episode is a mystery in the most classic literary sense of the word. It’s a whodunit detective story that spans more than a century – the saga of the Piltdown Man Hoax.
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A ‘Jackalope’ of an ancient spider fossil deemed a hoax, unmasked as a crayfish
Phys.org has a post about a crayfish masquerading as a spider. It seems someone painted legs on a poorly preserved crayfish fossil from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of China. You can read about their detective work in a paper published in the journal Paleoentomology. The locals sold the fossil to scientists at the Dalian…
