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Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications

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  1. Pseudofossils, Pareidolia, And Other Rorschachery

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

    By -Andy-,   
    • 24 replies
    • 4,069 views

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

    By Auspex,   
    • 4 replies
    • 3,139 views

  4. Examples of Commonly Faked Dino Eggs

    By HamptonsDoc,   
    • 123 replies
    • 15,561 views

  5. Fossil Fakes and Their Recognition

    By Oxytropidoceras,
    • 3 replies
    • 3,958 views

  6. Megalodon Tooth

    By BellamyBlake,   
    • 5 replies
    • 106 views

  7. Real fish skull bone from the Kem Kem Beds?

    By msantix,   
    • 3 replies
    • 192 views

  8. Real Tooth

    By FossilHunterNYC,   
    • 10 replies
    • 468 views

  9. Mosasaur jaws?

    By FF7_Yuffie,   
    • 3 replies
    • 151 views

  10. Are these real?

    By Vleuver,   
    • 7 replies
    • 170 views

  11. Keichousaurus - real, fake, altered?

    By Wrangellian,   
    • 8 replies
    • 182 views

  12. Megalodon Tooth

    By BellamyBlake,   
    • 12 replies
    • 145 views

  13. Lobster, real or fake?

    By Familyroadtrip,   
    • 9 replies
    • 84 views

  14. Mosasaur Jaw

    By BellamyBlake,   
    • 5 replies
    • 115 views

  15. Indonesian Meg

    By MarcoX,   
    • 6 replies
    • 202 views

  16. Is this a real spinosaurus tooth?

    By Belly,   
    • 3 replies
    • 94 views

  17. Indonesian megalodon teeth warning!

    By aeon.rocks,   
    • 14 replies
    • 535 views

  18. Deer jaw, possibly a fossil

    By Familyroadtrip,   
    • 4 replies
    • 118 views

  19. Crabs?

    By Familyroadtrip,   
    • 6 replies
    • 134 views

  20. Is this a real spinosaurus tooth?

    By Karuzai,   
    • 9 replies
    • 191 views

  21. Megalodon Tooth

    By BellamyBlake,   
    • 6 replies
    • 274 views

  22. Real Deltadromeus bone?

    By Guns,   
    • 5 replies
    • 185 views

  23. Real Halisaurus Arambourgi Premaxillary nose bone ?

    By Guns,   
    • 13 replies
    • 326 views

  24. Pliosaur rib/vert in matrix

    By FF7_Yuffie,   
    • 20 replies
    • 299 views

  25. I was told these could be fake

    By SpinoBary9,   
    • 6 replies
    • 254 views
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