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Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications

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  1. Pseudofossils, Pareidolia, And Other Rorschachery

    By Pilobolus,   
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  2. Guide to reporting fake fossils on our favorite auction site

    By -Andy-,   
    • 24 replies
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  3. NEW MEMBERS PLEASE READ - Guidelines For Posting In This Forum: Please Read!

    By Auspex,   
    • 4 replies
    • 3,046 views

  4. Examples of Commonly Faked Dino Eggs

    By HamptonsDoc,   
    • 123 replies
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  5. Fossil Fakes and Their Recognition

    By Oxytropidoceras,
    • 3 replies
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  6. Crab dinner???

    By Ruger9a,   
    • 47 replies
    • 620 views

  7. “Raptor” claw?

    By Dino1,   
    • 2 replies
    • 119 views

  8. Spanish dinosaur eggshells?

    By dinosaur man,   
    • 4 replies
    • 155 views

  9. Hadrosaur skin impression?

    By BonuFrailman,   
    • 6 replies
    • 115 views

  10. Strange bones on psittacosaurus fossil

    By Jacobloven,   
    • 4 replies
    • 64 views

  11. ID on Chinese claw fossil

    By BonuFrailman,   
    • 12 replies
    • 253 views

  12. Dinosaur egg with forming dinosaur?

    By Dino1,   
    • 4 replies
    • 127 views

  13. Spinosaurus claw and bones - real?

    By Twinsen,   
    • 5 replies
    • 132 views

  14. Mosasaur tooth and Edaphosaur toe bone. Are they real?

    By Sickle_Claw,   
    • 2 replies
    • 108 views

  15. Mosasaur Skull in matrix (Real?)

    By MaxC,   
    • 12 replies
    • 474 views

  16. Mosasaur vertebrae (real?)

    By MaxC,   
    • 6 replies
    • 180 views

  17. Dinosaur egg

    By Fotsirk,   
    • 12 replies
    • 250 views

  18. Ornithopod footprint?

    By Dino1,   
    • 9 replies
    • 153 views

  19. Tarbosaurus claw?

    By BonuFrailman,   
    • 4 replies
    • 136 views

  20. Another trilobite for your opinions

    By Archiveit,   
    • 21 replies
    • 386 views

  21. Is this Tooth real?

    By Phil84,   
    • 2 replies
    • 139 views

  22. juvenile triceratops pelvic bone???

    By Compy,   
    • 6 replies
    • 138 views

  23. Hello all I'm very new to collecting

    By Nimblewoodzy89,   
    • 17 replies
    • 227 views

  24. Dinosaurs eggs

    By klanguage,   
    • 6 replies
    • 242 views

  25. Does this Spinosaurus aegyptiacus tooth seem real?

    By fabiobrasilc,   
    • 5 replies
    • 147 views
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