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by im3w1l
856 days ago
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> Although obviously there’s no way to tell what whoever did it was thinking at such a remove. Well there are some hints. Hint 1: The specimen wasn't officially described scientifically until 1959. Hence it seems neither the person who found it, nor the geologist he turned it over to seemed to want to cause sensation with a fake find. Hint 2: Giorgio Dal Piaz died in 1962. This means that he was alive (age 87) to protest when it was described scientificially and did cause sensation, but chose not to (though it's possible he was frail and demented I suppose). Hint 3: The person that found the fossil was a museum employee, this makes carelessness less likely, but could go either way for deliberate fraud I suppose. |
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