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Old 04-June-2008, 07:12 PM
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Default Looking for website of fake dinosaur/caveman fossil

Hopefully someone can help me here. A long time ago, I'm assuming 1999ish, I came across the website of a man detailing the arguments against creationism. He also had orchestrated a hoax, by creating a plaster mold of a dinosaur skeleton eating a caveman skeleton, and take photos of an archeological crew "uncovering" it in the desert.

Supposedly, many people were fooled by it, and many others claimed it was photoshopped.


I'm fairly certain the site was linked to from Bad Astronomy's links page all those years ago, but subsequent efforts to find it again have proven futile. Does anyone have any idea what I'm talking about?
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Well there is this. http://www.nmsr.org/Archive.html It may be the page in question. On the other hand somebody may have stolen the pictures from the website and done their own right up. You didn't exactly do a lot of 'research', I typed in caveman dinosaur fossil and it was on the first page.
I only did this because it piqued my curiosity.
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edited because dammit, it was the right page, and I somehow went to a different tab while clicking back and forth.

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That's it exactly.
I admit I didn't do the search this time, but I've done it several times over the years. No idea why that never popped up. Must have used slightly different words...


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That's it exactly.
I admit I didn't do the search this time, but I've done it several times over the years. No idea why that never popped up. Must have used slightly different words...


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I apologize for being snippy there. Glad I was able to help.
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And when I searched on Heinschvagel which seemed not so very good German: NMSR Paleo Division

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As many of you suspected, this was an April Fool's Prank.
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I apologize for being snippy there. Glad I was able to help.

I apologize for the snippy sounding response to your response. I went to edit it, but it wasn't showing up, so I posted again.
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