It was a shocker, no doubt about it. The Piltdown Man scandal is arguably the greatest scientific fraud ever perpetrated in the UK. When the fake remains of our earliest ancestor were unmasked for ...

Image caption, The large hole on Mill Hill in Piltdown appeared in June A large hole which appeared on the edge of a road in East Sussex has remained unfixed for four months. The 1.2m (4ft) deep hole ...

Piltdown Man fooled the scientific community for some forty years before the hoax was finally discovered. Kate Bartlett explores the curious case of the bogus ancestor, and tries to unmask the ...

A large hole which appeared on the edge of a road in East Sussex has remained unfixed for four months. The 1.2m (4ft) deep hole on Mill Hill in Piltdown, near Uckfield, first appeared in June. Village ...