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David Attenborough's Natural Curiosities: A Curious Hoax?

Series 1, episode 2

David Attenborough highlights the curiosities that have led to accusations of forgery, but have ultimately helped assist the rethinking of evolution. When early explorers brought the first specimen of a duck-billed platypus to England in 1799, it was considered so bizarre it was deemed a hoax. Similarly, the midwife toad became the centre of a scientific storm in the 1920s that led to accusations of fakery

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Image for David AttenboroughDavid Attenborough
Stephen Dunleavy