Give us back our dinosaur skull, Dutch museum tells France

The natural history museum in Maastricht wants France to return the giant fossilised skull of a lizard taken by French troops as booty during the siege of Maastricht in 1794. Mosasaurus hoffmanni, which has been on show at the Musée National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris ever since, is the biggest of the giant sea lizard species ever found. Its jaw measures more than a metre and the animal is thought to have been between 10 and 15 metres long. Several...