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To: MeanWestTexan
It's a big money-maker in China to put different fossils together and sell it to stupid tourists.

I have no doubt tourists buy all kinds of stupid things.

But if the fossils found in recent years in China with the feather details are "manufactured", then someone needs to hire the artist who did it. They deserve to go on display merely because of their skill in microscopic fakery alone.

86 posted on 05/04/2005 1:51:00 PM PDT by narby
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To: narby
FWIW ...

"Bensen: Microraptor-My vote for the most important paleontological find of 2000 is Microraptor zhaoianus. Firstly, Microraptor is important because it represents yet another branch of the confusing theropod/bird group and its further study may shine some light onto the murky relations between birds and dinosaurs. Whatever its intrinsic scientific value, however, Microraptor is doubly important because it shows that the fossil fakes coming out of China can be resolved. Microraptor fossils were first seen as a tail and feet glued to a bird torso and named _Archaeraptor_. The debunking of Archaeraptor and the discovery of more fakes from China has given the amazing Chinese discoveries of the past years a distinctly bitter cast. Microraptor represents the effort legitimate paleontologists are making to rectify some of the mistakes, and share these priceless discoveries with the world."

From here.

95 posted on 05/04/2005 1:58:28 PM PDT by Gumlegs
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