Ancient Fossil That Baffled Scientists For Decades Finally
Reveals Its True Identity, Michelle Starr, Nature, February 16, 2024
[www.sciencealert.com]

280-Million-Year-Old Mystery Solved As Forged Fossil's
"Skin" Identified As Paint The "soft tissues" of this partial
forgery were painted on, but it isn't a total fake.
Rachael Funnell, IFL Science, February 16, 2024
[www.iflscience.com]

The open access paper is;

Rossi, V., Bernardi, M., Fornasiero, M., Nestola, F., Unitt,
R., Castelli, S. and Kustatscher, E. (2024), Forged soft
tissues revealed in the oldest fossil reptile from the early
Permian of the Alps. Palaeontology, 67: e12690.
[doi.org]
[onlinelibrary.wiley.com]

Yours,

Paul H.

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a Nun (1951)