France has returned a dinosaur skeleton, confiscated after it was looted from the Gobi desert in 2015, to Mongolia on Monday.

Tomorrow, a tyrannosaur will go up for auction in New York City. It shouldn't. The Tarbosaurus - lot 49315 - was illegally collected and smuggled out of Mongolia. Fossil theft is a major problem. It ...

Mongolia's claim to a tyrannosaur skeleton that experts agree was smuggled out of the country has captured international attention. However, this dinosaur's situation does not appear unique. Other ...

France is returning the "Tarbosaurus bataar" skeleton to Mongolia. This relative of the T-Rex comes from the Gobi Desert. It ...

The 70-million-year-old fossil—an “exceptional” full Tarbosaurus baatar—was seized in France after being trafficked out of ...

Mongolia's claim to a tyrannosaur skeleton that experts agree was smuggled out of the country has captured international attention. However, this dinosaur's situation does not appear unique. Other ...

A few weeks ago, Heritage Auctions announced that it had a tyrannosaur to sell. The assembled and articulated Tarbosaurus was expected to fetch nearly a million dollars at the May 20 auction.

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A dinosaur dispute is brewing between the Mongolian government and an American auction house, which sold a fossil of a fearsome T. Rex relative despite a court order not to. The 8-foot-tall, ...

The skull of a mounted Tarbosaurus. Photo by Jordi Payà, from Wikipedia. The road home for an illicit Tarbosaurus is bound to be a long one. Earlier this summer, federal agents seized a skeleton of ...

France on Monday handed over a 70-million-year-old dinosaur skeleton to Mongolia, which was looted from the Gobi Desert and ...