Actor Returns Smuggled Dinosaur to Mongolia

Published: 27th Dec 2015

Academy Award Winning actor Nicholas Cage has agreed to return a skull of a Tarbosaurus bataar. He had bought the dinosaur fossil, which originated in Mongolia at an auction for £185,000. However the authorities determined that the skull had been illegally smuggled out of Mongolia. Tarbosaurus bataar lived at the end of the Cretaceous period dying out some 65 million years ago. It is not thought that the authoritir=es are going to pursue any charges against Cage.