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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Photo: "Skeleton of Giant" Is Internet Photo Hoax


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Blogs, emails, and even a newspaper have used this "photograph" to back up reports that the National Geographic Society had discovered an ancient race of giant humans. But the skeleton image is actually a digital collage of three different photos. A Canadian illustrator created it in 2002 for a photo-manipulation contest.

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Image courtesy IronKite