I’ve blogged before about giant human skeletons that aren’t giant human skeletons. The first two examples I blogged about were hoaxes, created with image editing software (see here and here ). The Remnant of the Giants blog recently had an interesting post...
Giant PaleoBabble
Giant Mistaken Identity
Hard to believe, but it’s been three years since I blogged about Adrienne Mayor’s book explaining references to giant skeletons and bones in ancient classical authors (The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times). It’s highly...
The Cardiff Giant Hoax
Editor's note: broken link removed. Many of you have no doubt heard of the Cardiff giant -- supposedly a genuine fossilized human giant discovered in 1869. Despite the conclusive evidence for a hoax, one can still find pictures of the giant on obscure websites where...
Giant PaleoBabble
Yesterday I received an email containing some pictures of alleged giant skeletons. PaleoBabble readers know that I’ve posted before on this topic before , noting how Photoshop is certainly the solution to many of these pictures you see circulating on the web....
Biblical Giants and Dinosaur Bones
Aeneas asked a question in a comment to an earlier post about the faked giant human skeleton: I’d like you to comment on the dinosaur bones angle as well. It is certainly not an unreasonable theory for all the stories of giants in the past, including the Bible....
Giant Human Skeleton? Nope, Just Photoshop
I’ve had some recent email about this picture. Apparently there are still some who don’t know this was a hoax. The link shows the photos and how the hoax was put together. There are many other such links, too. Cool, actually. Go here for the information. ...