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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

    By -Andy-,   
    • 20 replies
    • 2,511 views

  2. Examples of Commonly Faked Dino Eggs

    By HamptonsDoc,   
    • 102 replies
    • 6,036 views

  3. Fossil Fakes and Their Recognition

    By Oxytropidoceras,
    • 3 replies
    • 2,510 views

  4. NEW MEMBERS PLEASE READ - Guidelines For Posting In This Forum: Please Read!

    By Auspex,   
    • 3 replies
    • 2,026 views

  5. Fake Morocco crocodile?

    By DLB,   
    • 28 replies
    • 258 views

  6. Eggs sold online as real: What do you think?

    By mapo,   
    • 15 replies
    • 312 views

  7. Are these oviraptor eggs real?

    By mapo,   
    • 26 replies
    • 496 views

  8. Mosasaur tooth setting

    By RichUtah,   
    • 7 replies
    • 108 views

  9. Big egg

    By Crazyhen,   
    • 1 reply
    • 70 views

  10. Mosasaur fabrication?

    By bcfossilcollector,   
    • 9 replies
    • 139 views

  11. Dinosaur eggs from Henan

    By Crazyhen,   
    • 14 replies
    • 262 views

  12. Jeholosaurus

    By Crazyhen,   
    • 8 replies
    • 188 views

  13. Trilobite from Morocco

    By kirkjeremiah23,   
    • 4 replies
    • 107 views

  14. Stegosaurus illium

    By Fossil'n'Roll,   
    • 3 replies
    • 130 views

  15. Insane Brachiopod

    By JurassicParkCarnotaurus,   
    • 10 replies
    • 271 views

  16. Cambropallas trilobites, a study in restoration

    By Aurelius,   
    • 9 replies
    • 214 views

  17. Juvenile Psittacosaurus

    By Crazyhen,   
    • 5 replies
    • 175 views

  18. Rooted Mosasaur tooth in Matrix

    By Abstraktum,   
    • 3 replies
    • 96 views

  19. Real Knightia?

    By Seguidora-de-Isis,   
    • 9 replies
    • 326 views

  20. Petrified Wood - Is it real?

    By Seguidora-de-Isis,   
    • 8 replies
    • 271 views

  21. Aurora fossils

    By Wolf89,   
    • 12 replies
    • 302 views

  22. Mosasaur Jaw

    By pugrockprincess,   
    • 12 replies
    • 195 views

  23. mosasaur jaw

    By amon81,   
    • 39 replies
    • 1,532 views

  24. Spinosaurus tooth

    By Davidevi82,   
    • 1 reply
    • 98 views

  25. Spinosauridae indet tooth from KemKem

    By Abstraktum,   
    • 8 replies
    • 159 views
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