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December 2002
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Geological Curator
Geology is often presented in the media in a sensational manner, but how do these stories reach the public domain and how much of them are fabrication? Presented here is an account of how a project, concerning the conservation of a Jurassic ichthyosaur, made the news world-wide but in an effort to make it more dramatic accuracy was increasingly lost.
... A forefin, hindfin, tail, or even a skull was sometimes appended to a skeleton to create a more complete specimen for display. This practice resulted in numerous ichthyosaur composites (McGowan, 1990;Buttler and Howe, 2002;Massare and Lomax, 2016b). Most historic composites were not necessarily done for deceptive purposes, but simply for a more display-worthy piece of 'art' (Massare and Lomax, 2016b), unlike today where, unfortunately, the commercial fossil market is populated with countless frauds and forgeries (Mateus et al., 2008). ...
December 2002
Geological Curator
