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US fossils dealer jailed for dinosaur smuggling (BBC)
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.
Prokopi had sold it at auction in May 2012 for more than $1m ($600,000) but it was then seized by the US government.
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more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-27691816
