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Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications

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  1. Pseudofossils, Pareidolia, And Other Rorschachery

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

    By -Andy-,   
    • 24 replies
    • 3,551 views

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

    By Auspex,   
    • 4 replies
    • 2,789 views

  4. Examples of Commonly Faked Dino Eggs

    By HamptonsDoc,   
    • 126 replies
    • 12,579 views

  5. Fossil Fakes and Their Recognition

    By Oxytropidoceras,
    • 3 replies
    • 3,475 views

  6. Mosasaur Verts from Morocco

    By Abstraktum,   
    • 6 replies
    • 120 views

  7. Spinosaurus Claw, fake or not?

    By JavierMS,   
    • 18 replies
    • 300 views

  8. Megalodon tooth real or fake

    By RS2325,   
    • 9 replies
    • 86 views

  9. Red Flag on Kem Kem Dinosaur Material

    By Troodon,   
    • 53 replies
    • 2,927 views

  10. Trilobite Comura Walliserops?

    By kingcobb,   
    • 3 replies
    • 114 views

  11. Is this a fake keichousaurus?

    By Dk12345,   
    • 13 replies
    • 180 views

  12. Old box of shark tooth “fossils”

    By T. nepaeolicus,   
    • 4 replies
    • 121 views

  13. Pachycepalosaurus 3 claws

    By Raulsaurus,   
    • 9 replies
    • 176 views

  14. Fake Megalodon Tooth ? and Others

    By Cdfossil,   
    • 18 replies
    • 417 views

  15. 3 edmontosaurus claws

    By Raulsaurus,   
    • 14 replies
    • 164 views

  16. Majungasaurus Tooth?

    By Rustdee,   
    • 35 replies
    • 1,089 views

  17. Kerosene smelling amber?

    By JulianoLPD,   
    • 13 replies
    • 403 views

  18. Crinoid - real, composite, or replica?

    By Carboniferous320,   
    • 4 replies
    • 125 views

  19. Is this egg for real?

    By Dopemorphodon,   
    • 11 replies
    • 234 views

  20. Baryonyx tooth shard?

    By BonuFrailman,   
    • 14 replies
    • 192 views

  21. Another trilobite

    By Mariz83,   
    • 6 replies
    • 160 views

  22. Does this Otodus matrix look ok?

    By aplomado,   
    • 6 replies
    • 127 views

  23. Anything wrong with this fish?

    By fossilguy312,   
    • 5 replies
    • 153 views

  24. Psittacosaurus skull

    By Raulsaurus,   
    • 8 replies
    • 347 views

  25. Is this fossil real or fake ?

    By LucasLucky,   
    • 17 replies
    • 419 views
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