#paleontology

Stories tagged “paleontology” in the Weird Science History archive — 5 stories connected by this topic.

• From a Dinner Party Inside an Iguanodon to Feathered Raptors: A Short History of Picturing Dinosaurs
• The Sea Monster Rebuilt With Its Head on the End of Its Tail
• The Fake Fossils Carved to Humiliate a Professor — Who Then Published a Book About Them
• The Geologist Who Tried to Eat His Way Through the Entire Animal Kingdom
• The Petrified Giant That Was a Fake of a Fake

Related topics: #hoaxes #18th century #archaeology #media literacy #Victorian science