Forged "Evidence"

Fossil "evidence" that was once loudly hailed as proof that birds evolved from other creatures has been shown to have been forged. In 1999 National Geographic magazine featured an article about a fossil of a feathered creature with a tail like a dinosaur's. The magazine declared the creature to be "a true missing link in the complex chain that connects dinosaurs to birds." The fossil, however, turned out to be a forgery, a composite of the fossils of two different animals. In fact, no such "missing link" has ever been found. - Awake! July 2007