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Nature 410, 539-540 (29 March 2001) | doi:10.1038/35069145;

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Forensic palaeontology: The Archaeoraptor forgery

The Archaeoraptor fossil was announced as a 'missing link' and purported to be possibly the best evidence since Archaeopteryx that birds did, in fact, evolve from certain types of carnivorous dinosaur. It reportedly came from Early Cretaceous beds of China that have produced other spectacular fossils transitional between birds and extinct non-avian dinosaurs.

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