If you find a piece of rock with a white lump in it, you can be absolutely certain it is not a bone Real fossil bones are dark brown because of mineralization. Dinosaur tracks near Denver, Colorado. Probably the most dramatic intermediate fossil form. Few subjects have been as rich a source of hoaxes as the origins of humans. The photos purportedly show ancient giant fossil footprints but the author made the mistake of putting a real foot in the photograph.
Real feet are narrower and the line acoss the toes slants more sharply back than the fakes.
Showman P.T. Barnum tried to buy it for his museum. Kingdom Fungi Fungi differ so fundamentally from other plants that they are now considered a separate kingdom. Since they lack hard parts they are rarely fossilized. Club mosses are small spore-bearing plants today but their Paleozoic relatives grew to tree size. Horsetails are closely related to club mosses.