Feds seek recovery of rare dinosaur fossil they say was looted from Gobi Desert

The feds filed a lawsuit Monday to seize a rare dinosaur fossil that was auctioned last month for $1.05 million, claiming that the specimen was looted from the Gobi Desert in Mongolia.



The lawsuit filed by the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s office seeks recovery of the 8-foot-tall, 24-foot-long nearly complete Tyrannosaurus bataar skeleton on behalf of the Mongolian government.



The bataar is an Asian cousin of the North American T-Rex. The dinosaur roamed Central Asia in the Cretaceous period, around 75 million years ago.



The fossil was sold May 20 by Heritage Auctions in Manhattan to an unidentified phone buyer.

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