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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Photo: Dino Black Market Fuels Peasant-Police Combat in China


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Parts of this hundred-million-year-old dinosaur, photographed on July 3, 2007, were crushed into powder by villagers in China's central Shaping village for use in an elixir.

Chinese peasants are increasingly digging up valuable dinosaur fossils in a bid to escape poverty, experts say.

Photograph by Donald Chan/Reuters