Germany to return rare Irritator dinosaur skull to Brazil
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The dinosaur fossil, preserved since 1991 in Stuttgart, will be returned to its home country. A decision that ends a long debate on the ownership of the fossil
A dinosaur fossil found in Brazil will be returned after 35 years at the Stuttgart State Museum of Natural History, Germany. The species Irritator challenger lived about 110 million years ago and was discovered in the Chapada do Araripe, Ceará. According to Secitece (Secretariat of Science, Technology and Higher Education), the material arrives in Brazil in the coming months, after the completion of the bureaucratic and logistic stages of transp…
Germany to return rare Irritator dinosaur skull to Brazil
The Stuttgart State Museum of Natural History, which acquired the Irritator challengeri specimen in 1991, has agreed to hand the fossil over to its country of origin following years of scientific and public pressure, News.Az reports, citing The Guardian. This move is being hailed as a major achievement in the broader context of global restitution efforts and ethical science. *** The fossil belongs to a genus of spinosaurid, which were large meat…
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