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Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications

This forum is devoted to illuminating the pitfalls to be avoided when considering the purchase of fossils. 

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  1. Guide to reporting fake fossils on our favorite auction site 1 2

    By -Andy-,   
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  2. Pseudofossils, Pareidolia, And Other Rorschachery 1 2 3 4 11

    By Pilobolus,   
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  3. Examples of Commonly Faked Dino Eggs 1 2 3 4 6

    By HamptonsDoc,   
    • 125 replies
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  4. NEW MEMBERS PLEASE READ - Guidelines For Posting In This Forum: Please Read!

    By Auspex,   
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  5. Fossil Fakes and Their Recognition

    By Oxytropidoceras,
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  6. Is this fossil real? And if yes, what is it?

    By Tina frankston,   
    • 7 replies
    • 89 views

  7. Real or fake Amber?

    By edteach,   
    • 13 replies
    • 241 views

  8. Fake Cretaceous Insect Fossils from China are now on sale at a show near you

    By Biotalker,   
    • 21 replies
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  9. Is this S. aegyptiacus's tooth real?

    By Satoshi,   
    • 7 replies
    • 172 views

  10. Early hyena skull

    By Sofyar,   
    • 6 replies
    • 142 views

  11. Keichousaurus Help please 1 2

    By RobFallen,   
    • 30 replies
    • 431 views

  12. 2 Spinosaurus teeth

    By jacknovella,   
    • 3 replies
    • 127 views

  13. Triassic reptile - is it real?

    By fossilwizard,   
    • 1 reply
    • 84 views

  14. Jawless Fish

    By Charlotte787,   
    • 0 replies
    • 68 views

  15. Some more Moroccan unknowns

    By yardrockpaleo,   
    • 17 replies
    • 320 views

  16. Enchodus jawbones

    By yardrockpaleo,   
    • 18 replies
    • 298 views

  17. Spinosaurus Claw l, fake or not

    By Satoshi,   
    • 9 replies
    • 229 views

  18. Authentic Kem Kem Fossils? Composites?

    By eurichhhh,   
    • 1 reply
    • 98 views

  19. Thick-shelled Dinosaur Egg

    By Crazyhen,   
    • 7 replies
    • 163 views

  20. Stegodon Tusk

    By MarcoX,   
    • 2 replies
    • 165 views

  21. Realized I purchased a fake Moroccan croc skull but seller insists it's 100% authentic

    By EckSmithSe,   
    • 15 replies
    • 394 views

  22. Dino egg nest fossil?

    By craigory,   
    • 14 replies
    • 300 views

  23. Mosasaur tooth in matrix

    By Gareth_,   
    • 7 replies
    • 214 views

  24. Brittle star fossil or carving?

    By DS20,   
    • 3 replies
    • 144 views

  25. Is it real? Indonesian Crab Fossil

    By Wei Yang Low,   
    • 12 replies
    • 252 views
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