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Hoax Episodes

    The Pursuit of Parrots

    The search for Australia's night parrot and how it has driven birders mad for decades.

    The Forever Fly

    How did a single specimen undermine all that scientists thought they knew about evolution?

    The Toad Kisser

    A scientist with a toad collection becomes embroiled in a global scientific culture war

    The Wizard of Sussex

    An eccentric solicitor tries to convince the world that early humans evolved in England

    The Planted Plants of Rum

    Could the Isle of Rum miraculously have escaped the Ice Age? Tori Herridge investigates.