To mark April Fools’ Day, National Geographic News summarized some historic—and noteworthy, from our perspective—scientific hoaxes.

Piltdown man was widely accepted as a legitimate human ancestor for over forty years, and has been called “Britain’s Greatest Hoax.”

A review of the history of paleoanthropology leads to the conclusion that the discipline is far less objective than that for physics, chemistry, or even biology.

“Britain’s Greatest Hoax” is the title of the Timewatch investigation of the Piltdown Man fraud, shown on BBC2 television recently.

As more evidence of altered fossils begins to surface, one must seriously question the integrity of the fossil industry and the stories these fossils are supposed to tell.

Later this week, BBC–TV will run a documentary on the Piltdown apeman, ‘the greatest hoax of the 20th century.’

Once again, a movie claiming to cast doubt on the deity of Christ resorts to outright fabrications to make its case. Gordan Franz, guest columnist and archaeologist, explains.

Bigfoot has been found—or so claim two men who say they have found the dead body of a Sasquatch.

An article in Nature magazine titled “New Light on the Piltdown Hoax?” claims to have fresh circumstantial evidences as to the perpetrator of the fraud.