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Faux fossils by the hundred: the story of Johann Beringer’s ‘lying-stones’

The sorry story of Johann Beringer has been a part of the folklore of palaeontology for nearly 200 years. In 1726, Beringer revealed a e book illustrating some extraordinary ‘fossils’ apparently discovered within the rocks near Würzburg in southern Germany. … Continue reading

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