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 _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
