Piltdown Man - ‘discovered’ in England from 1908 to 1912. This compromised a human skullcap plus the lower jaw of an orang-utan, the teeth of which had been stained and filed to make them look human and match the size of the teeth in the upper human jaw. Although the hoax was poorly done, it fooled the establishment and was probably the most quoted ‘evidence for evolution’ for around 40 years, until 1953, when the fraud was exposed.
Batten D., Ham K., Sarfati J., Wieland C., The Answers Book P. 116