They could not believe their own eyes.
the Researchers from the Dalian Natural history Museum in China was in the process of chopping stone in the middle of the formation of the Yixian, which is famous for its fossils from the early cretaceous (covers the period from 145,5 to 99.6 million years before now).
They had just found a spider, which hasn’t looked like anything anyone had seen before. It was incredibly well preserved.
the Researchers named the spider Mogolarachne chaoyangensis and released their analysis of the spider in the journal Acta Geologica Sinica. They thought that they had found an entirely new species of spiders. It was a large fund.
There was just one problem: It was a forgery.
It writes the Science Alert according to the Science.dk.
It was the palaeontologist Paul Selden of the University of Kansas, who realized the situation. He was skeptical when he read the researchers ‘ analysis. the
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the Article had few details, so my colleagues in Beijing borrowed the fossil, and I got to see it. Immediately I saw that there was something wrong with it. It was clearly not a spider. It was missing various parts, but had too many parts in its six legs and had big eyes, he said to Science Alert.
penny has dropped, when another paleontologist told that there was found in many crustaceans in the same area, which are dated to between 120-130 million years, writes Science Alert.
I discovered what had happened. Edderkoppe-the fossil was in fact a crayfish, where someone had painted legs on, ” says Selden.
the Legs are apparently painted on with oil paint – presumably by local peasants, who tried to make money on the forgery.
It is a very convincing forgery, and you will, according to Paul Selden is not ane boldly by just looking at it. Unless you know what to look for.
Why were the scientists from the Dalian museum of natural history, cheated, explains Paul Selden.
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