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David Attenborough's Natural Curiosities
05:20 am - 06:00 am Monday, September 21
A Curious Hoax?
Season 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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- David Attenborough — Presenter
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