I tried to find out if the fossil I bought online was real. Then I realized I might be asking the wrong question By CNN Newssource Published August 15, 2025 10:00 AM ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The fossil that writer Jacopo Prisco ordered online. - Toby Hancock/CNN It stands to reason that a 95 million-year-old tooth ...

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(CNN) — It stands to reason that a 95 million-year-old tooth shipped to my home would have a rich past. But what ensued after I bought it online for about $100 revealed how, for such relics and those ...

To find out, I took it to London’s Natural History Museum, where Susannah Maidment, a senior researcher and fossil expert, examined it. “Yeah, it’s a fossil, for sure,” she said. “It’s got a rounded ...

But some obvious cracks that suggested the specimen had perhaps been patched together from multiple fragments left me wondering: Was it real? To find out, I took it to London’s Natural History Museum, ...