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U.S. to return more stolen dinosaur skeletons to Mongolia
Mongolia may need to rustle up some more glass cases for its first dinosaur museum after US authorities announced Friday they will hand back a large new collection of stolen fossils. At a ceremony on Monday, officials had turned over the nearly complete skeleton of a 70-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus bataar, a…
On the trail of dinosaur fossil swindlers
Dinosaur fossils are big business, with complete skeletons fetching millions. And that much cash attracts swindlers, science writer Brian Switek reports Fossils are priceless. I mean that in both senses: they are invaluable clues about vanished lives and their worth should never be measured in dollars. But Eric Prokopi made…
Mongolians go to polls hoping for mining wealth
Resource-rich Mongolia headed to the polls Thursday to elect a new parliament, with both major parties telling frustrated voters they would deliver better shares of a stunning but divisive mining boom. Mongolia’s economy has exploded in recent years as mining giants such as Rio Tinto and China’s Shenhua moved in…
U.S. sues after Texas auction house sells looted Mongolian T-Rex
The US government is suing to force an auction house to return the fossil of a dinosaur that roamed Mongolia 70 million years ago to the Asian country. The nearly complete tyrannosaurus bataar is believed to have been unearthed between 1995 and 2005, and is one of several specimens first…
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