Voice of America: US Returning Smuggled Dinosaur to Mongolia

Voice of America Voice of America is an international news and broadcast organization serving Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Russia, the Middle East and Balkan countries

US Returning Smuggled Dinosaur to Mongolia Feb 19th 2013, 18:15 A nearly complete skeleton of a 70-million-year-old dinosaur will soon be returned to Mongolia. Last year, a Florida paleontologist sold the skeleton of the Tyrannosaurus bataar at auction for more than $1 million. U.S. authorities accused Eric Prokopi of lying on customs forms by declaring the fossilized bones to be worth $19,000. Prokopi pled guilty to fraud in December. This week, a judge ordered the skeleton and other fossils turned over to the government. Prokopi faces at least 10 ... Media files: C00A549E-4182-47A0-881A-AE294531E32E_cx0_cy0_cw0_w800_r1.jpg?nocache=1 (image/jpeg, 0 MB)

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