“There is fossil smuggling”, warns Pedro Mocho, and national legislation does not prohibit the sale if they are extracted on private land

It is in the West that the main deposits of dinosaur fossils in Portugal are found, but it is not exactly certain that these remains can remain in the country. In an interview with the Futuro do Futuro podcast, Pedro Mocho, a paleontologist who helped discover an unknown species of dinosaurs, points the finger at national legislation that does not prohibit the extraction and sale of fossils found on private land, if they have not been classified as “common interest”

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