Fake Bugs Published as Living Specimens

Several Film Flies replica insect were widely published, in a lavish hard bound book, Atlas of Creation, and presented as purportedly real living creatures, to be compared with fossilized specimens, to disprove evolution.

I'm sure the publisher was perplexed upon realizing the bugs are instead realistic insect replicas.

 

Caddis, with fishing hook intact

Original photo

Makes one wonder what the person erasing the background thought the hook was?

Mayfly

This red spider was originally created for a Hardy-Greys advertisement

Where realistic art comes to life