[Elsie]

The only hoax I am aware of is Piltdown Man......then I got a feathered dino from Chino to sell you; complements of the Nat Geo folks.

[CarolinaGuitarman]

"The only hoax I am aware of is Piltdown Man......then I got a feathered dino from Chino to sell you; complements of the Nat Geo folks."

I was talking about a hoax that the scientific community believed. *Archaeoraptor* was never accepted by science; National Geographic goofed, and paid for it's sloppiness. The hoax was perpetrated not by scientists but by fossil sellers.