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Stupid question, but there have been a number of high profile fossil forgeries in China over the last few years and my understanding is that these are largely d
by debatem1 8y ago
Stupid question, but there have been a number of high profile fossil forgeries in China over the last few years and my understanding is that these are largely done by destroying other fossils of the type to fool tests that rely on the chemical composition being wrong. Is that easier or harder to get away with things like this that have few close parallels?
- yorwba 8y agoI think it's kind of hard to destroy unremarkable fossils so they not only 1) appear as unknown taxa 2) and are well-preserved, but also 3) create a complete Lagerstätte where palaeontologists can just go and dig up more of them.