On 3 Jan 2003 at 13:17, Horn, John wrote:

> > From: Ronn! Blankenship [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > In 2000, Archaeoraptor, a Chinese fossil of what looked 
> > like a feathered flying dinosaur, was revealed to be a 
> > forgery: A slab 
> > containing the fossil of a fish-eating bird was glued to one 
> > holding the 
> > fossilized tail of a small carnivorous dinosaur. Grout helped.
> 
> Wow.  I hadn't heard that this was a hoax.  I did a quick web search
> and came up with these link:

It was and it wasn't. I saw a TV program on this a while back.

Yes, the glued-together one was a fake. A case of not seeing the 
wood for the trees. The upper section is an proto-bird which IS 
unique, and very nearly as interesting as the origional "discovery"

Andy
Dawn Falcon

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