Nebraska Academy of Sciences

 

Date of this Version

1984

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Article

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1984. Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences, XII:95-102. Copyright © 1984 Hayward

Abstract

The early history of paleontology is replete with examples of misidentifications of fossils. Teeth and bones of mastodons and mammoths were especially apt to be identified as the remains of antediluvian giants. These fallacies were entertained not only by the uninformed, but also by the intellectual elite. Even today misidentified fossils are sometimes used as "evidence" for the former existence of giants.

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