Dinosaur heads home to Mongolia after odyssey ends in Queens - latimes.com: "NEW YORK -- It's bad enough to go from roaming the earth as a fearsome predator to being uprooted and dragged across three continents, but to end up in a basement in Queens?
No wonder the Tyrannosaurus bataar was broken up. Literally. But not for long.
Prosecutors and customs officials Monday loaded up boxes containing chunks of the 70-million-year-old dinosaur to ship him home to Mongolia, ending an odyssey driven by fossil hunters whose attempt to sell the skeleton led to their downfall and Tyrannosaurus bataar's resurrection.
"We are very pleased to have played a pivotal role in returning Mongolia's million-dollar baby," the U.S. attorney in Manhattan, Preet Bharara, said at a ceremony marking what customs officials said was one of the most important fossil repatriations in years."
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