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The moral and legal imperative to return illegally exported fossils

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Fig. 1: The consequences of illegal fossil export.

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N.B.R. acknowledges financial support from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (KI 806/17–1).

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  1. Museu de Arqueologia e Paleontologia, Universidade Federal do Piauí, Brazil (UFPI), Teresina, Brazil

    Juan C. Cisneros

  2. Departamento de Geologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Natal, Brazil

    Aline M. Ghilardi

  3. GeoZentrum Nordbayern, Department of Geography and Geosciences, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

    Nussaïbah B. Raja

  4. Institute of International Law, Intellectual Property and Technology Law, Center for International Studies, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

    Paul P. Stewens

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Cisneros, J.C., Ghilardi, A.M., Raja, N.B. et al. The moral and legal imperative to return illegally exported fossils. Nat Ecol Evol 6, 2–3 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01588-9

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