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Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications

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  1. Fish fossils from the Green River Formation

    By Crazyhen,   
    • 8 replies
    • 195 views

  2. Funny Fake

    By BonuFrailman,   
    • 12 replies
    • 264 views

  3. Redlichia trilobite?

    By Wilhelm,   
    • 11 replies
    • 212 views

  4. Misleading mioplosus????

    By Bone guy,   
    • 10 replies
    • 214 views

  5. 6.12" meg tooth. Is this restored?

    By jalcon,   
    • 26 replies
    • 419 views

  6. Megalodon Tooth first time buyer!

    By Martybc3,   
    • 6 replies
    • 163 views

  7. Carcharodontosaurus saharicus tooth

    By thelivingdead531,   
    • 9 replies
    • 173 views

  8. Is my Keichousaurus real?

    By indominus rex,   
    • 7 replies
    • 154 views

  9. Our Favourite...Keichosaur!

    By FossilDudeCO,   
    • 25 replies
    • 887 views

  10. Keichousaurus

    By BonuFrailman,   
    • 12 replies
    • 206 views

  11. Patho shark tooth ID?

    By Bone guy,   
    • 4 replies
    • 76 views

  12. Is this a real or fabricated Carcharocles Megalodon?

    By Mukti,   
    • 29 replies
    • 420 views

  13. Tyrannosaurus Rex tooth identification

    By cjbrown,   
    • 15 replies
    • 274 views

  14. Moroccan Trilobites- Fakes and Junk - Who buys this stuff?

    By aeon.rocks,   
    • 45 replies
    • 890 views

  15. Real or composite globidens tooth with root?

    By Wowbnjijdat,   
    • 15 replies
    • 227 views

  16. Crazy fish skull real?

    By indominus rex,   
    • 14 replies
    • 469 views

  17. Red flag on hadrosaur egg

    By -Andy-,   
    • 16 replies
    • 414 views

  18. Identifying Counterfeit Fossils

    By RonG,   
    • 15 replies
    • 243 views

  19. Petrified Wood - Is it real?

    By Seguidora-de-Isis,   
    • 7 replies
    • 175 views

  20. Is real? Rib or a Skull Fragment of Kem Kem?

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

  21. Mosasaur tooth with root- what do you think?

    By aplomado,   
    • 10 replies
    • 489 views

  22. Real Hollardops mesocristata?

    By xDiamondX,   
    • 37 replies
    • 625 views

  23. Need some help with keichousaurus shenanigans

    By Bone guy,   
    • 14 replies
    • 335 views

  24. Real Knightia?

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

  25. Real Morocco Mosasaur teeth?

    By Seguidora-de-Isis,   
    • 4 replies
    • 153 views
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