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Chonosuke Okamura

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geological period of miniature animals, ranging from dinosaurs to humans, accounting for more than 1000 allegedly extinct "mini-species", each less than 0.25mm in length. He claimed that "There have been no changes in the bodies of mankind since the Silurian period... except for a growth in stature
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In the 1970s, he visited Japan's paleontology conference several times and applied to present his findings. It was rumored that in 1978 an elderly paleontologist who walked into Okamura's lecture became so angry that he suffered from high blood pressure and died prematurely. Eventually the
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paleontology conference changed its rules to ban amateurs and Okamura petitioned overseas colleges, finally publishing his research himself in 1983. He was awarded the
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Science's most wanted: the top 10 book of outrageous innovators, deadly disasters, and shocking discoveries
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New facts: homo and all vertebrata were born simultaneously in the Former Paleozoic in Japan
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presentations of claims he discovered miniature dinosaurs and humans in the fossil record
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was a Japanese amateur paleontologist. In his late 70s, he claimed to have discovered
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The earwig's tail: a modern bestiary of multi-legged legends
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"Chonosuke Okamura, Visionary"
Annals of Improbable Research
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Abrahams, Marc
"Tiny tall tales: Marc Abrahams uncovers the minute, but astonishing, evidence of our fossilised past"
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978-0-674-03540-9
Science's most wanted: the top 10 book of outrageous innovators, deadly disasters, and shocking discoveries
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1-57488-481-6
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978-1-6698-0453-6
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