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Fake bird fossil highlights the problem of illegal trading

Nature volume 404, page 696 (2000) Cite this article

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The fossil, which is thought to have been smuggled out of China, was bought early last year by amateur collectors, who paid $80,000 for it at an Arizona mineral show (see Nature 403, 689 ; 2000). It will be returned to China in June as a result of negotiations completed last week while the fossil was being analysed at the US National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC.

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Dalton, R. Fake bird fossil highlights the problem of illegal trading. Nature 404, 696 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/35008237

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