In a story that blends Hollywood glamour with international fossil smuggling drama, actor Nicolas Cage once unknowingly purchased one of the rarest dinosaur skulls on Earth—a stolen Tyrannosaurus bataar fossil from Mongolia. What followed was a high-profile legal battle that culminated in Cage voluntarily returning the fossil to its rightful home, spotlighting the complex issues of cultural heritage, fossil poaching, and celebrity in the modern world. Dive into how Cage’s involvement unfolded and what it meant for paleontology and international law. […]
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