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The claim that A. liaoningensis constituted a missing link between
dinosaurs and birds turned into a scandal when it emerged in March
2001 that the fossil was a forgery. No such intermediate species as
Archaeoraptor had ever existed. Computer tomographic scanning of the
fossil revealed that it consisted of parts from at least two different
species. Archaeoraptor had a reptile-like tail and a bird-like body, which
had subsequently been expertly assembled together.
Archaeoraptor was thus removed from the scientific literature and
placed alongside all the other evolutionist forgeries. Darwinism, unable
to find any evidence for its claims for 150 years, had again resorted to
deliberately manufactured fossils.
Many articles refer to Archaeoraptor and Piltdown Man in the same
breath, but there is an important difference between these two fossil
forgeries, the Piltdown Man skull was accepted by scientific circles in
1912 and spent the next 40 years being portrayed as evidence of human
evolution, before being exposed as a fraud. The Archaeoraptor fossil did
not get that far, because some scientists doubted it right from the
outset—doubts that turned out to be correct.
National Geographic magazine announced the discovery of a supposed dino-bird, said to
have lived 125 million years ago. However, it later emerged that this fossil, given the name
Archaeoraptor liaoningensis and depicted as significant evidence of evolution, was actually
a forgery, consisting of a dinosaur’s tail added to a bird’s body.

This imaginary reconstruction,
declared to be a so-called missing
link, was recognized as a forgery.