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On 15 April 2016, the World News Daily Report (WNDR) web site published an article reporting that scientists in North Carolina had successfully created the first fully living dinosaur embryo in millions of years using DNA from chicken skin: World News Daily Report is a fake news site, and the story was completely fabricated, but the article gained enough traction online (including being copied and reproduced by multiple websites which included no disclaimers) that the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences published a statement informing the public that it was a hoax: WNDR typically attaches unrelated images to fictional clickbait headlines to generate traffic from social media shares. In this case, their photo of of French bioethicist Jacques Clement was in fact a photograph of University of Washington's associate professor of genome sciences John Stamatoyannopoulos, and their picture of the Paleontology Research Lab where the T. rex cloning was supposedly carried out was just a Getty Images stock photograph. And the overall story was simply a rehash of one of several dinosaur cloning hoaxes to circulate on social media in recent years.
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