Tusk Luck: Alaska Man Sentenced To Federal Prison For Stealing Mammoth Fossil
An Alaska man and his co-conspirator took a fossilized tusk from a Bureau of Land Management museum. Then, they cut it up and sold off the pieces.
by Cat Schuknecht
Apr 12, 2019
2 minutes
The woolly mammoth won't miss its tusk, but paleontologists and museum goers likely will.
On Thursday, a man was sentenced to federal prison after he and a co-conspirator stole – then segmented and sold – a fossilized mammoth tusk from a museum of the Bureau of
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