In the Jan. 28, 2013 issue, Paige Williams looks at the black market for fossils, and talks exclusively to Eric and Amanda Prokopi, whose curious trade in Mongolian dinosaur fossils has landed them at the center of an extraordinary legal case:

United States of America v. One Tyrannosaurus Bataar Skeleton went to court in early September, in lower Manhattan, with U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel presiding. Castel has adjudicated cases involving accused mobsters (John Gotti, Jr.) and cases involving rappers (Kanye West) but never one with a party from the late Cretaceous. “I stand to be educated,” he said. “I’m not going to claim that I have dinosaur arrests presented to me with any frequency…”

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