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Paleontologist Sentenced in Dino Bone Theft

Submitted by LiveScience Staff

posted: 25 June 2009 03:16 pm ET

Self-taught paleontologist Nathan Murphy has been sentenced to four months in a halfway house and 3 years probation for stealing dinosaur fossils, AP reports. He was accused of taking 13 bones from Montana's Hell Creek badlands and pleaded guilty to theft of government property.

Murphy is best known for his discovery of a mummified duckbill dinosaur named Leonardo.

Finding Leonardo: Dinosaur Superstar

One of the world's most perfectly preserved dinosaur fossil was unearthed in Montana in 2002. Leonardo the duck-billed dinosaur has since taught paleontologists much.
Credit: HMNS/Livescience.com

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