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Have you ever seen a purple horned winged lizard? Neither have we. But we have seen a purported image of one: This image frequently pops up online along with the claim that it shows a purple horned winged lizard. As much as we would like to believe this is a real animal, however, it is not — it is a years-old digital creation that won a 2006 digital editing contest on the graphic design-themed web site Worth 1000 (now DesignCrowd.com). The instructions for the contest were as follows: The purple horned winged lizard was submitted by Worth 1000 user taelir, and was originally accompanied by the caption cute, but deadly. Taelir did not provide much information about this artwork was created, other than writing that it was made with Adobe Photoshop. This is hardly the first piece of digital art created for the web site Worth 1000 to fool unsuspecting internet users. The web site, which was dedicated to image manipulation, is also responsible for pictures supposedly showing Mr. Peebles, the world's smallest cat, Goliath skeletons, an unusual home built into rock, and of course, more dragons, which — unfortunately — do not exist.
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