May 26, 2008
Sheahan Bestel of Museum Victoria holds
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - Sheahan Bestel of Museum Victoria holds up a 200 million-year-old fossil which is one of six specimens given by China as a sign of appreciation after the Australian government returned to China 750 kilograms of illegally exported fossils through the Protection of Movable Cultural Heritage Act on May 26, 2008 in Melbourne, Australia. The items include a fossil turtle from northwest China, a marine reptile fossil from the Triassic Period and a rhinoceros jaw/skull fragment from the Cenozoic Age. The 750 kilograms of fossils were seized between 2004 and 2007 in a number of joint operations by the Australian Federal Police and the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts. (Photo by WILLIAM WEST/AFP/Getty Images)
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