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The Archaeoraptor forgery

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  • Timothy Rowe

    (C1100, The University of Texas at Austin)

  • Richard A. Ketcham

    (C1100, The University of Texas at Austin)

  • Cambria Denison

    (C1100, The University of Texas at Austin)

  • Matthew Colbert

    (C1100, The University of Texas at Austin)

  • Xing Xu

    (Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Academia Sinica)

  • Philip J. Currie

    (Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology)

Abstract

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 dinosaur1. It reportedly came from Early Cretaceous beds of China that have produced other spectacular fossils transitional between birds and extinct non-avian dinosaurs2,3. But Archaeoraptor was revealed to be a forgery in which bones of a primitive bird and a non-flying dromaeosaurid dinosaur had been combined4,5,6. Here we use high-resolution X-ray computed tomography (CT)7 to determine the nature and extent of the forgery, as well as how it was built, by imaging the fracture pattern and distribution of materials through the entire specimen.

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  • Timothy Rowe & Richard A. Ketcham & Cambria Denison & Matthew Colbert & Xing Xu & Philip J. Currie, 2001. "The Archaeoraptor forgery," Nature, Nature, vol. 410(6828), pages 539-540, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:410:y:2001:i:6828:d:10.1038_35069145
    DOI: 10.1038/35069145
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