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US government to seize $1m Mongolian Tyrannosaurus Bataar (BBC)
A 70 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus Bataar, unearthed in the Gobi Desert, is to be seized by the US Department of Homeland Security.
A New York court has issued a warrant forcing an auction house to return the fossil to modern-day Mongolia, where it was discovered about seven years ago.
The dinosaur was sold at auction in New York last month by Heritage Auctions, for more than $1m (£600,000).
But the court says it was illegally imported to the US via the UK in 2010.
The Tyrannosaurus Bataar, an Asian cousin of the better-known Tyrannosaurus Rex, is currently being held by a fine art property company in Queens.
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more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18519286
