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

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

    By -Andy-,   
    • 30 replies
    • 6k views

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

    By HamptonsDoc,   
    • 125 replies
    • 24k views

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

    By Auspex,   
    • 4 replies
    • 4.4k views

  5. Fossil Fakes and Their Recognition

    By Oxytropidoceras,
    • 3 replies
    • 5.3k views

  6. Large plate of Eocrinoid Ascocystites, needs a closer look

    By Biotalker,   
    • 12 replies
    • 210 views

  7. Nyctosaurid humerus

    By Opabinia Blues,   
    • 1 reply
    • 108 views

  8. Ammonites and Leaf

    By Lucid_Bot,   
    • 17 replies
    • 217 views

  9. "Deinotherium Tusk" I bought a while back 1 2

    By GarethGP,   
    • 44 replies
    • 992 views

  10. Big black megalodon tooth with pyrite in bourlette

    By Jerrychang,   
    • 7 replies
    • 181 views

  11. Are these real? Hadrosaur and Oviraptor Eggs

    By DesertJerboa,   
    • 10 replies
    • 389 views

  12. Star fish and brittle star - fake or real?

    By MHAN,   
    • 5 replies
    • 189 views

  13. Spinosaurid tooth: real root?

    By BirdsAreDinosaurs,   
    • 17 replies
    • 187 views

  14. Shrimp Looks Too Good

    By Lucid_Bot,   
    • 22 replies
    • 318 views

  15. Final Round of Real vs. Fake

    By Lucid_Bot,   
    • 2 replies
    • 114 views

  16. Selling Real for Fake Fossils?

    By Lucid_Bot,   
    • 21 replies
    • 329 views

  17. Is this spinosaurus tooth real?

    By Han Han,   
    • 5 replies
    • 131 views

  18. Is this spinosaurus claw real?

    By Luuk,   
    • 4 replies
    • 120 views

  19. Authentic Spinosaurus claw?

    By Mrhenky3,   
    • 5 replies
    • 213 views

  20. I think I got taken (thankfully not for very much)

    By JBkansas,   
    • 10 replies
    • 251 views

  21. Real Spinosaurus tooth?

    By Marco90,   
    • 3 replies
    • 131 views

  22. How much of this real? (Brazilian Vinctifer)

    By JUAN EMMANUEL,   
    • 1 reply
    • 104 views

  23. GW shark tooth

    By scairp,   
    • 4 replies
    • 145 views

  24. Tyrannosaurus Rex tooth, a good buy?

    By heZZ,   
    • 10 replies
    • 402 views

  25. Is it Real? Spinosaurus Tooth

    By Rock Hound,   
    • 17 replies
    • 341 views
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