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A commercial fossil hunter, whose discovery of the world's best-preserved dinosaur brought scientific acclaim, will serve 60 days in jail for stealing raptor bones from private land.
Nathan Murphy, 51, a self-taught palaeontologist, was convicted in March of felony theft for taking the raptor fossil from a ranch in northern Montana.

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Thieves have stolen more than 50 unusual exhibits from a dinosaur museum in Hull.

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The proprietors of a small space museum are considering tighter security after the theft of a meteorite from the collection.

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The slice of meteorite stolen two weeks ago from the Joshua Tree Museum has been found for sale at a gun show.
Terry Boswell, the museums founder, said a friend and fellow meteorite collector was offered the meteorite in Indianapolis on Saturday.
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Meteorite stolen

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A key antenna in India, part of a worldwide network measuring the shift in the earths landmass, has been stolen and police fear it might have been sold as scrap.
The 5-foot-high GPS-enabled antenna was reported missing from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore on January 5

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A massive stone bowl believed to be between 4,000 and 6,000 years old has been stolen from a beach on Mayne Island, an area belonging to the Tsartlip First Nation.
Drag marks are visible down Helen Point Beach and band members assume a large boat was used to remove the bowl, said Chief Chris Tom.

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A display case of objects acquired by the Somerset County Museums Service through as a result of the Treasure Act and the work of the Portable Antiquities Scheme has been broken into and two gold, gem-set finger rings have been stolen from it. The rings were just two of around 50 items in the case, including other rings, dress accessories, coins, pottery and flint tools.

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