Nicolas Cage has consented to return a dinosaur skull that was rare to the Mongolian authorities. Cage reportedly outbid Leonardo DiCaprio for the skull.
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NY prosecutors last week said they were seeking court approval to take custody of the skull so it could be returned to Mongolia.
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A publicist for Cage, Alex Schack, said the Department contacted in 2014 the performer.
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The 51-year-old purchased the Tyrannosaurus bataar skull for $276,000 (A$382,000), unaware it had been stolen, ABC reports.
The ancient animal was related to the more well-known Tyrannosaurus Rex and lived around 70 million years ago.
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Cage’s publicist says the actor was given a certificate of authenticity at purchase. Schack told Reuters Cage is fully cooperating in the matter.
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It was unclear whether the skull has ties to Eric Prokopi, a former fossils dealer who pleaded guilty to charges he smuggled multiple shipments of dinosaur bones between 2010 and 2012 that had been stolen from the Gobi Desert. He sold an Action Comics No. 1 in 2011 for just over $2.1 million (about £1.42 million, AU$2.9 million) that features the first appearance of Superman. He served three months in prison. After it was decided “by the Dept of Homeland Safety & the US Lawyer’s Workplace in that the fossil was certainly not legal smuggled in to the US & rightfully belongs to the Authorities of Mongolia, [Nicolas] agreed to convey possession of the fossil to the Dept. …”
