FYI: How Do You Ship A Dinosaur Halfway Around The World?
Tarbosaurus bataar A mounted Tarbosaurus bataar fossil on display at the CosmoCaixa museum in Spain Photo by Jordi Payà on FlickrA large Mongolian dinosaur fossil, subject of a legal battle last year, is now finally free to return to its home country. How will it get there? Tarbosaurus bataar is going home. And the journey, though long, won't be that bad--especially for a 70 million-year-old like him (or her). The 8-foot-tall, fully mounted Tyrannosaurus rex relative first found itself in the news last May, when it went to auction in New York. In an unusual move, the Mongolian government decided to sue, saying that the Tarbosaurus must have come from the Gobi Desert in Mongolia, as that's the only place Tarbosaurs have ever been found. (Like several other countries, though not the U.S., Mongolia considers fossils to be a part of its national heritage, and it's illegal to sell Mongolian fossils privately.)...