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Modern palaeontology keeps unmasking fossil forgeries – and a new study has uncovered the latest fake

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par Valentina Rossi, Postdoctoral researcher, Palaeontology, University College Cork

Fake fossils are among us, passing almost undetected under the eye of experts all over the world. This is a serious problem – counterfeited specimens can mislead palaeontologists into studying an ancient past that never existed.

In a new study, my colleagues and I reveal a surprising truth about a fossil celebrated for decades as one of the best preserved fossils from the Alps.

The Tridentinosaurus antiquus was a small lizard-like reptile that lived during the Permian…

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