A Florida fossils dealer has admitted smuggling dinosaur bones into the US, including those of a 70-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus bataar from Mongolia.
A court in New York heard that Eric Prokopi sold the skeleton at auction in May for more than $1m (£600,000).
In June, US officials seized the bones after Mongolia said they were stolen.
In a plea bargain, Prokopi gave up any claim to the skeleton as well as to others seized by authorities which included remains from China.
He also admitted illegally importing a Chinese flying dinosaur, two oviraptors and a duckbilled creature known as a Saurolophus.
The court heard that Prokopi, 38, was arrested in October as a lorry arrived at his home loaded with fossils.
He faces a maximum of 17 years imprisonment when he is sentenced in April.
Shopping listUS Attorney Preet Bharara said authorities would now begin the process of returning the fossils to their countries of origin.
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