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  • 2016-05-15 (xsd:date)
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  • Is This a Photograph of a 'Hammerhead Salamander'? (en)
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  • In 2016, photographs that purportedly showed a hammerhead salamander (also known as the boomerang-head, or diplocaulus) started circulating on social media: Although the diplocaulus was indeed a real animal that lived during the Permian period, the amphibian has not been present on Earth for about a few hundred million years. Therefore, it is highly unlikely that a real, living diplocaulus was captured on camera. The photograph displayed above may appear to belie the fact that the diplocaulus has long been extinct, but the image actually depicts a model of a diplocaulus created by artist Goro Furuta. A message posted on the artist's Facebook page identified the animal as a model and not a living creature: This isn't the first time that a model of a diplocaulus has been mistaken for the real thing. In 2004, another photograph of a purported hammerhead salamander in a bucket circulated on the internet: That image also turned out to be a hoax. (en)
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