{"id":10779,"date":"2025-12-08T13:24:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T13:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actualitelibre.com\/france-to-return-stolen-dinosaur-skeleton-to-mongolia\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T13:24:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T13:24:42","slug":"france-to-return-stolen-dinosaur-skeleton-to-mongolia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actualitelibre.com\/en\/france-to-return-stolen-dinosaur-skeleton-to-mongolia\/","title":{"rendered":"France to return stolen dinosaur skeleton to Mongolia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article__media\"> <picture class=\"article__media\">  <\/picture> <noscript>  <\/noscript><figcaption class=\"article__legend\" aria-hidden=\"true\">The skull of a Tarbosaurus, the Asian cousin of the Tyrannosaurus rex, at the Pal\u00e9ospace in Villers-sur-Mer, France, on March 30, 2023.  <span class=\"article__credit\" aria-hidden=\"true\">LOU BENOIST \/ AFP<\/span>  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">France was to hand over a 70-million-year-old dinosaur skeleton to Mongolia on Monday, December 8, which was looted from the Gobi Desert and seized by French customs. The &#8220;extremely rare&#8221; fossil of a Tarbosaurus baatar, considered to be the Asian cousin of the fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex, was seized by French officials in 2015. Public Accounts Minister Am\u00e9lie de Montchalin was to hand&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/science\/article\/2025\/12\/08\/france-to-return-stolen-dinosaur-skeleton-to-mongolia_6748273_10.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The skull of a Tarbosaurus, the Asian cousin of the Tyrannosaurus rex, at the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actualitelibre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actualitelibre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actualitelibre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actualitelibre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actualitelibre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/actualitelibre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actualitelibre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actualitelibre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actualitelibre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}