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prices that well-preserved Chinese bird fossils fetch have made faking
extremely profitable. Over the past twenty years, says Derstler, “adhe-
sives and fake rock have become very easy to make and very difficult
to spot.”
The problems start with the Chinese peasants who dig up to make a
fortune from fossils. 163
The next part of the report refers to how some composites, or
combined fossils, were made with such expertise as to deceive even the
experts:
The paleontologist Luis Chiappe, of the natural History Museum of
Los Angeles County, describes how one such specimen almost fooled
him, till he noticed that one leg was longer than the other. “I wasn’t
sure what was wrong with it.” Chiappe said. Only close examination
revealed that two slabs had been mortared together. “On the surface,
you really couldn’t see that.” Dr. Larry Martin of the University of