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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. Examples of Commonly Faked Dino Eggs

    By HamptonsDoc,   
    • 123 replies
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  2. Pseudofossils, Pareidolia, And Other Rorschachery

    By Pilobolus,   
    • 234 replies
    • 10,662 views

  3. Guide to reporting fake fossils on our favorite auction site

    By -Andy-,   
    • 20 replies
    • 2,948 views

  4. Fossil Fakes and Their Recognition

    By Oxytropidoceras,
    • 3 replies
    • 2,980 views

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

    By Auspex,   
    • 3 replies
    • 2,325 views

  6. Real or Fake?

    By lakeview206,   
    • 15 replies
    • 175 views

  7. Ichthyosaurier?

    By MarcoX,   
    • 14 replies
    • 171 views

  8. Hollardops mesocristata

    By CH Fossils,   
    • 2 replies
    • 51 views

  9. Are These Real?

    By Nedryland,   
    • 4 replies
    • 112 views

  10. Baryonyx Vert

    By fossil_sea_urchin,   
    • 9 replies
    • 219 views

  11. Is this wooly rhinoceros tooth real?

    By Cederholm,   
    • 7 replies
    • 100 views

  12. Birthday Fossils! Are they real?

    By Yasei,   
    • 12 replies
    • 158 views

  13. fake dinosaur eggs

    By lee2,   
    • 2 replies
    • 146 views

  14. Lycoptera enhanced?

    By ReptileTooth,   
    • 4 replies
    • 115 views

  15. Dinosaur footprint?

    By Crazyhen,   
    • 2 replies
    • 179 views

  16. Is this a real T-rex metatarsal

    By Oxalaia,   
    • 10 replies
    • 297 views

  17. Authentication of Australian Crinoid Fossil (Jimbacrinus Bostocki)

    By Peter Stahlberg,   
    • 3 replies
    • 94 views

  18. Real trilobite?

    By FrostbyteFossils,   
    • 5 replies
    • 161 views

  19. Red Flag on "Medusoid" fossils from the Ediacaran of Namibia

    By connorp,   
    • 7 replies
    • 150 views

  20. Is this a genuine shark tooth?

    By KrazyK711,   
    • 10 replies
    • 102 views

  21. Otodus Shark Tooth

    By Yoda,   
    • 4 replies
    • 151 views

  22. Is this a Pterosaur tooth placed in a non-Pterosaur jaw section?

    By msantix,   
    • 8 replies
    • 225 views

  23. Ammonite: real or fake?

    By LauraGalicia,   
    • 15 replies
    • 280 views

  24. Hell Creek Theropods help wanted

    By Mesozoic Mike,   
    • 2 replies
    • 133 views

  25. Ammonite Nautilus?

    By Chinliang,   
    • 3 replies
    • 108 views
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