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A 280 million year old fossil that purportedly showed early reptile development and supposedly showing rare soft tissue preservation has been shown to be paint over a carved skeleton..... Even museums can be fooled I guess. 

The should have posted it here in the us it real section first I guess!:BigSmile:

https://phys.org/news/2024-02-paleontological-analysis-renowned-fossil-thought.html

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7 hours ago, Randyw said:

A 280 million year old fossil that purportedly showed early reptile development and supposedly showing rare soft tissue preservation has been shown to be paint over a carved skeleton..... Even museums can be fooled I guess. 

The should have posted it here in the us it real section first I guess!:BigSmile:

https://phys.org/news/2024-02-paleontological-analysis-renowned-fossil-thought.html

Seems that no matter the area of interest/field of study, humans like to see what they want to see, at least for awhile..:heartylaugh:

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really cool fossil turns out to be really cool fake, but it had long puzzled scientists so it did not completely fool everybody, and may not even be an intentional attempt to deceive

 

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Moved to Fossil News.  ;)

 

Shocking! :eyeroll:

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My guess is more than a few fossil afficionados were non-plussed.  Not as many people who were non-plussed by at least the semi-verdict on the Shroud of Turin, which is not a fossil of course, but kind of at that magnitude in the fossil world.

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@digit

 

 

TOPICS MERGED!   ;)

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6 minutes ago, Fossildude19 said:

@digit

 

 

TOPICS MERGED!   ;)

LOL you might as well merge in my topic I started about it on February 16 th too! 

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1 hour ago, Randyw said:

LOL you might as well merge in my topic I started about it on February 16 th too! 

 

Moved to FOSSIL NEWS AND MERGED!  ;)

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Hah! This one escaped me the first time around. It's still a forgery! :P

 

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken

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