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Anonymous
>>87413 No, the Hoyle and Spetner thing occurred in the mid-80's and was fairly completely dismantled by the British Narural History Museum soon after. The ArchaeoRAPTOR incident occurred in 1999 being glued together by a farmer and smuggled out of China in 97, and purchased in 98. The formal paper was rejected by peer-reviewed journals but National Geographic published it anyhow, made an ass of themselves, and were forced to retract it.
Just prior to but overshadowed by the Archaeoraptor hoax was the discovery of Sinosauropteryx, whose fossil matrix contained down feathers, in 2002 the feathered dromaeosaur Cryptovolans was discovered, and more recently (05 I believe) the primitive bird Confuciosornis was discovered.
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