The United States will return to Mongolia 18 dinosaur skeletons Bashny.Net

The United States agreed to send the remains of 18 dinosaurs to Mongolia after they were discovered in the course of a criminal investigation.



According to preliminary data, the age of the skeletons — between 68-80 million years, they have been found in the Gobi desert and illegally smuggled into the US. Their repatriation comes a month after paleontologist Eric Prokopi was sentenced to three months in prison for involvement in the smuggling.

The Prokopi pleaded guilty in 2012 to three counts of a criminal offence and cooperated with prosecutors in recovering information about fossil, including some previously unknown to the authorities.

"This is a historic moment for the U.S. attorney's Office, and we are proud to participate in the return of these dinosaur skeletons to Mongolia," said a Manhattan Prosecutor preet US Bharara on repatriation ceremony in Manhattan. "An event of this kind really has no precedent," he said.

Mongolia builds a Museum of natural history, where they can be exhibited fossils, said Bharara.

Including Mongolia will be transferred to the two skeletons of Tyrannosaurus, a fossilized egg and a well preserved "nest" of several oviraptor skeletons.

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Source: old.archeo-news.ru/