10 modern scientific mystifications

Forgotten tribes. Space disasters. Fictional animals. Often, if something sounds too incredibly that it was the truth, it the truth and is not. Many heard, for example, about a giant from Cardiff or circles on fields. Old myths disproved long ago, but with an enviable regularity the new succeed. Arkheoraptor. In 1999 found in China the skeleton of a dinosaur was declared "by a missing link between dinosaurs and birds". The paleontologic community shook, it was not found out yet that the skeleton is stuck actually together from two different dinosaurs, and well-known.