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Published online 21 November 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news021118-6
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Fossil forgery's front half revealed
The head end of Archaeoraptor, the notorious fake dinosaur, ate fish.
In November 1999, readers of National Geographic magazine were offered a real treat. The magazine described a fossilized bird from China with the tail of a dinosaur1.
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