Giant Skeleton discovery – A Hoax, Misinformation or truth?

National Geographic article: “Skeleton of Giant” Is Internet Photo Hoax
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IronKike, the creator of this photo art, used this photo to enter a photo-manipulation contest.

California-based Snopes.com, for example, noted that the skeleton image had been lifted from Worth1000, which hosts photo-manipulation competitions.

Titled “Giants,” the skeleton-and-shoveler picture had won third place in a 2002 contest called “Archaeological Anomalies 2.”

The image’s creator—an illustrator from Canada who goes by the screen name IronKite—told National Geographic News via email that he had had nothing to do with the subsequent hoax.

IronKike use one of Cornell U. mastodon dig images at Hyde Park shown from this site to creat his “art”:

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To see a video on real discoveries of giants — 12 feet:

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