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Two years ago, one of the world's most respected journals was led to believe it had discovered proof of a controversial theory: a half-bird, half-dinosaur fossible. But all was not what it seemed.
Two years ago, one of the most respected journals in the world was duped by an extraordinary hoax. It announced that it had a huge scoop, because it had discovered one of the most sought-after fossils in all history, half-bird, half-dinosaur. It seemed to prove one of the most controversial theories in palaeontology, that dinosaurs had evolved into birds. Eminent scientists appeared to authenticate the fossil, but all was not what it seemed.
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