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combined in this fossil, created by the expert assembly of components
belonging to five different living things. Chinese amateurs had made a
dino-bird out of 88 bones using adhesives and various plasters. Earlier
reports published under the captions like “Winged Dinosaur Found”
and “Flying Dinosaur Unearthed” now gave way to “Dino-Bird
Exposed” headlines. In a reference to the earlier Piltdown Man fraud, the
well known magazine New Scientist began referring to the fossil as “the
Piltdown Bird”! 155
On 29 March, 2001, an important admission appeared in a number
of daily newspapers. The Turkish daily Hürriyet, for example, carried the
story under the headline, “Dino-Bird Turns out to Be Nonsense”:

A group of researchers, including three paleontologists, examined the Archaeoraptor liao-
ningensis fossil with the help of computer tomography. It emerged that this supposed
dino-bird fossil was composed of 88 bones and stones, put together by Chinese smug-
glers using adhesive and plaster.