French customs officers discovered illegal dinosaur teeth in a logistics service truck from Spain to Italy. The finding was made during an evaluation planned on the highway near the French-Italian border. Reporting this portal Phys.org, Agency France-Presse (AFP) news agency reference.
Among the seizures were the ancestors of the Ocean Zarafazaa (more than 66 million years Plesaurus), Mosa -urosaur’s three female and one Dirosaurus’s five female – crocodiles.
Experts from the Prehistoric History Museum of Menton, confirmed that the teeth probably came from Morocco and reached tens of millions of years.
For the export of such fossils, a special resolution that the sender does not have is required. The investigation is currently continuing to establish buyers and determine more action.
This is not facing France’s first illegal fossil exports. In 2020, the country returned Morocco, including fossils and works seized in 2005-2006, 25 thousand items. In 2015, some of the Tarbosaurus skeleton, which was illegally exported from Mongolia, was discovered in Lyon.
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Source: Gazeta
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