But a new report today combining the being of pure light we have dubbed Nicolas Cage with a stolen dinosaur skull and the government of the sparsely populated Asian landmass Mongolia is on an entirely different level, joining together an unprecedented three freakish components to form a headline that me and the other people who make a living making fun of weird headlines could only dream of.
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A civil forfeiture complaint was submitted by Manhattan US attorney, Preet Bharara, to initiate the repatriation process.
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The actor bought a skull similar to this one in 2007.
Because he is turning over the skull after learning of its circumstances, he will not be charged with a crime.
Nicolas and the gallery are not accused of any wrongdoing.
U.S. authorities first contacted the Hollywood star in July 2014, informing him that the 67-million-year-old skull may have been stolen.
It is not clear if Cage’s dinosaur skull is connected to Prokopi. A representative did not return a request for comment.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Martin Bell, who prosecuted Prokopi, was also the lead government lawyer in the Cage case, according to court records. More than a dozen dinosaur fossils have been returned since 2012, including a nest of dinosaur eggs and three full Tyrannosaurus bataar skeletons. Its remains have been discovered only in Mongolia, which criminalized the export of dinosaur fossils in 1924.
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“Each of these fossils represents a culturally and scientifically important artifact looted from its rightful owner”, Bharara said last week.
