Ancient spider fossil turns out to be a crayfish "someone had painted legs on"

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Ancient spider fossil turns out to be a crayfish "someone had painted legs on"

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Some actual information about the story. The paper detailing how they revealed it was a fake is here (behind paywall).
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Good story. Thanks both.
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Fishnut wrote: Sun Dec 22, 2019 9:55 pmThe paper detailing how they revealed it was a fake is here (behind paywall).
Version without paywall here (click on "View PDF").
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