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FORT COLLINS — Bones from two dinosaur specimens have prompted a federal lawsuit in a dispute between two organizations that preserve fossils.
A South Dakota research company is suing a Montana nonprofit dedicated to the study of fossils over castings of bones from two tyrannosaurus-rex specimens discovered in South Dakota.
The Black Hills Institute of Geological Research in Hill City, S.D., argues that it lent two castings to Fort Peck Paleontology in Montana several years ago.
In the lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Great Falls, Mont., the institute claims Fort Peck Paleontology failed to return the castings and is using them to sell unauthorized copies of the bones.
