A rare dinosaur fossil that was recently auctioned at $1 Million dollars has been recovered by the feds. Click below to find out what happened.
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.
