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Dino drama: Sanctions leveled in South Dakota's latest fossil dispute

Dino drama: Sanctions leveled in South Dakota's latest fossil dispute

Missing triceratops skull at center of case between Texas fossil company and a Montana paleontologist

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Apr 11, 2025
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A federal judge has fined defendants in a South Dakota fossil dispute, escalating a lawsuit over a missing triceratops skull allegedly stolen from private land in Harding County.

U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann’s imposition of $2,000 in sanctions on the defendants for missing critical court deadlines marks the latest development between a Texas fossil company and a Montana paleontologist accused of stealing the dinosaur fossils he’d been hired to dig up.

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