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US fossils dealer jailed for dinosaur smuggling

NEW YORK: -- A US fossils dealer has been jailed for three months for smuggling dinosaur bones including those of a 70-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus bataar from Mongolia.


Eric Prokopi, 39, had admitted three charges when he appeared in court in December 2012.

Prosecutors in New York described him as "one-man black market in prehistoric fossils".

The Tyrannosaurus bataar skeleton was returned to Mongolia in May 2013.

Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-27691816

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-- BBC 2014-06-04

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