Archaeoraptor
id:
archaeoraptor-167-545814
title:
Archaeoraptor
text:
"Archaeoraptor" is the informal generic name for a fossil chimera from China in an article published in National Geographic magazine in 1999. The magazine claimed that the fossil was a "missing link" between birds and terrestrial theropod dinosaurs. Even before this publication, there had been severe doubts about the fossil's authenticity. A further scientific study showed it to be a forgery constructed from rearranged pieces of real fossils from different species. Zhou et al. found that the hea
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Faked dinosaur discovery in China
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeoraptor
date created:
2004-03-04T10:24:03Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T06:27:26Z
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Archaeoraptor_IVPP.jpg","width":2592,"height":1418}
fields total:
13
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16