David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities Series 1 Part 2: A Curious Hoax

David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities Series 1 Part 2: A Curious Hoax
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.