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    "Archaeoraptor" is the informal generic name for a fossil chimera from China in an article published in National Geographic magazine in 1999. The magazine...
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    of the Microraptor's tail in an obscure journal, giving it the name Archaeoraptor liaoningensis in an attempt to remove the name from the paleornithological...
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    1999 edition, National Geographic magazine announced the discovery of Archaeoraptor, a link between dinosaurs and birds, from a 125 million-year-old fossil...
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    indicate it was a very large animal, 20 metres or greater in length. "Archaeoraptor" is the informal generic name for an important fossil from China that...
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  • director and co-founder of The Dinosaur Museum, which purchased the Archaeoraptor fossil chimera. His life-sized replicas of dinosaurs, including members...
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  • from the same organism. A now classic example of chimera is Protoavis. Archaeoraptor Avalonianus Bagaraatan Dakotaraptor? Dalianraptor? Kootenichela? Lametasaurus...
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    Philip John Currie AOE FRSC (born March 13, 1949) is a Canadian palaeontologist and museum curator who helped found the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology...
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  • provenance, has been questioned. In 1999, the magazine was embroiled in the Archaeoraptor scandal, in which it purported to have a fossil linking birds to dinosaurs...
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    forgeries is exposed. 2016: Study reveals method of Dawson's forgery. Archaeoraptor Bone Wars – Similar rivalry and hoaxes over dinosaur bones in the late...
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    Greek cheese. There have also been paleontological forgeries like the archaeoraptor or the Piltdown Man skull. Most archaeological forgeries are made for...
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    In 1999, a supposed fossil of an apparently feathered dinosaur named Archaeoraptor liaoningensis, also found in Liaoning, turned out to be a forgery. Comparing...
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  • José; Ortega, Francisco (16 February 2000). "El 'escándalo archaeoraptor'" [The Archaeoraptor scandal]. El País (in Spanish). Olson, Storrs L.; Fleischer...
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  • specimens from all other China, as well as the world-famous fake dinosaur Archaeoraptor. The admission booth of Dinosaurs of China contained a Psittacosaurus...
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    "missing link" between dinosaurs and birds and planned to be named "Archaeoraptor", but was identified as a hoax before being formally published in a...
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    with the tail of a Microraptor to make the paleontological forgery "Archaeoraptor". Upon discovering this, the bird half was described as Archaeovolans...
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    remains bore fully formed feathers closely resembling those of birds. "Archaeoraptor", described without peer review in a 1999 issue of National Geographic...
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    Archaeoceratops Archaeodontosaurus Archaeopteryx – possibly a bird Archaeoraptor – a chimaera of the bird Yanornis and the dromaeosaur Microraptor Archaeornis...
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    preserved feathers from Liaoning, including a composite fossil dubbed "Archaeoraptor". The floor also mounts a cast of a Shansisuchus along with the skull...
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    grabaui Zhou & Zhang 2001 (Early Cretaceous) †Yanornis Zhou & Zhang 2001 [Archaeoraptor Sloan 1999 (nomen nudum); Archaeovolans Czerkas & Xu 2002; Aberratiodontus...
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  • appear to provide evidence for the co-existence of dinosaurs and humans Archaeoraptor — the supposed "missing link" between birds and tetrapod dinosaurs;...
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  • origin of birds. The article contained information about a fossil called Archaeoraptor that Stephen A. Czerkas (d. 2015) was studying in Blanding, Utah. A...
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  • Mountain Formation, Utah  USA Nodosaur whose name means "living citadel." "Archaeoraptor" Hoax Stephen Czerkas vide:C. P. Sloan vide:Olson Chimera of Yanornis...
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    PalAsiatica. 49 (2): 195–200. Zhou, Z.; Clarke, J.A.; Zhang, F. (2002). "Archaeoraptor's better half". Nature. 420 (6913): 285. Bibcode:2002Natur.420..285Z...
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