Separating fact from fiction in a farcical story! Were fossil dinosaur feathers really found near the South Pole? by Phil Robinson Published: 3 December 2019 (GMT+10) Dino-bird evolution frequently causes excitement on social media platforms so my attention was grabbed by a picture of a fully feathered dinosaur with a sensationalist National Geographic headline that read, “In a first, fossil dinosaur feathers found near the South Pole”.1 However, what had actually been found differed so significantly from the headline that words such as overreaching speculation and grandiose story-telling immediately came to mind. In what follows, I have broken down the...