Posted on 12/28/2019 10:22:41 AM PST by SunkenCiv
When scientists at the Dalian Natural History Museum in China copped a load of a fossil unearthed in the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation, they couldn't believe their eyes. The eight-legged beastie looked like nothing anyone had seen before. Exceptionally preserved.
They described it as a new spider, publishing their analysis in the journal Acta Geologica Sinica, and named the species Mongolarachne chaoyangensis. There was just one problem: the fossil was a big old fake.
The cunning ruse was discovered by invertebrate paleontologist Paul Selden of the University of Kansas, whose spidey senses started tingling when he got his hands on the paper...
The penny dropped, he said, when palaeobiologist Chungkun Shih of Capital Normal University in Beijing remarked that a lot of Cretaceous crayfish are found in the same formation, dating back to around 120 to 130 million years ago...
These images returned four main fluorescence colours: white, which likely indicated a mended crack; blue, which is the mineral composition of the host rock; red, indicating actual fossilised material; and yellow. That yellow fluorescence, the researchers said, is most likely created by oil-based paint.
But it's a very convincing forgery.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencealert.com ...
Piltdown Man Approves This Message.
Years ago, I was VERY interested in dinosaurs. Unlike many kids, I spent some time getting to know the details, and had a kind old man (friend of my grandpa) who knew some actual paleontologists.
They all, and I mean ALL, admitted a great many fossils on display are not reproductions but fakes. Some were done innocently, as they didn’t know for sure what that bone ridge looked like and they had to make a guess. Some were out and out frauds, as their funding depended on a certain view so they faked the results.
Kind of a cottage industry back home.
Moderan day example. There is a large buffalo kill site in western Nebraska. The Indians drove the herd off a cliff, and then butchered and cleaned the carcasses. I went there ten years ago, and all the official signs said “NO NATIVE AMERICANS EVER INTERACTED WITH THIS SITE!”
The museum overlooked the dig site. You could see the butchering marks and cut skulls that are common when people break down animals. Someone skinned those animals, and if it wasn’t Indians then who?
Seems the prof doing the dig was trying to get published, and she felt the best way to do that was to make something up.
lol
That is funny...Thanks...
They are both in Ohio but you shouldn’t eat either unless you want mercury poisoning.
There’s not ‘a missing link’ - - all the links between all the species are missing... Someone is trying to mess with the obvious... that we were created.
Always like to ask evolutionists how can life come from non-life and to explain just the whole reproductive system that magically evolved. They always say it took millions of years. Yup.
It might be fake, but it still proves Global Warming is real.
/Leftbot
I live near a large flea market where the state police have arrested vendors with counterfeit merchandise; when your children buy Pokémon cards with blatant misspellings of common English words, then you realize why they were so much cheaper than those in stores...
I picked up a bundle of camping gear years ago, and it included a couple of knockoffs of scout mess kits. They didn’t put the scout emblems on them, and if they did you’d realize they were fake immediately - they were far lighter than the real deal. The plates could easily be bent in half like a taco; that would take real effort with the genuine ones. I simply gave them to a flea market vendor to make what he could from them; I couldn’t in good conscience even ask for $1 each.
I see this cheap crap all over Ebay and flea markets now; oddly enough, decades-old Japanese or Taiwanese versions which were considered inferior at the time are head and shoulders above the ChiCom crap - even after all that time.
Heh. I Remember the archeoraptor thread.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bobden/scientific_misconduct.pdf
So does Nebraska man.
Looks like he wasn't the Sharpie-est tool in the shed.
I was raised in Mississippi.
We called them “crawdads”................
Ear-Bending Cellmate : ...and when there was no meat, we ate fowl and when there was no fowl, we ate crawdad and when there was no crawdad to be found, we ate sand.
H.I. : You ate what?
Ear-Bending Cellmate : We ate sand.
[pause]
H.I. : You ate SAND?
Ear-Bending Cellmate : That's right!
....... and THAT is how the SANDwich was invented!..................
Crawdads, they’s crawdads!
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