Nebraska Man

Nebraska Man may refer to a man from Nebraska or the scientific folly of 1922.

In 1922, a rancher in Nebraska found a tooth which was subsequently identified as a species of man by the American Museum of Natural History. It was claimed that the species was closer to man than the Great Apes. A diagram of the tooth and an artist's rendering of the Nebraska Man appeared in The Illustrated News of London. The scientists claimed that this was evidence of a "prehistoric" man living in North America.

In 1927 more fragments of the skeleton were found and it became apparent that the tooth belonged to a wild pig.