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Nature 391, 724 (19 February 1998) | doi:10.1038/35681
Moscow's 'missing fossils' come under new scrutiny
Alison Abbott
A criminal investigation may soon begin into the alleged theft of fossils said to be worth a million US dollars from the Palaeontological Institute in Moscow, part of the Russian Academy of Sciences.Yuri Rybakov, an independent member of the Russian parliament, has said that he is convinced by evidence from some of the institute's researchers that its management had been involved in illegally approving the export and sale of items from its fossil collection, one of the most important in the world.
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