Piltdown 1 molars
Examination of the Piltdown dentition revealed that the molars which had been claimed to have been discovered in 1913 were abraded to make them appear older. They were in fact molars from an Orangutan
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10712718
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47595847
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Credit
Mary Evans / Natural History Museum
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Photograph from the Natural History Museum Collection
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