22-03-2018 19:04 via ottawacitizen.com

Mammoth tusks, illegally taken, return to Canada, 60 years later

It was a mammoth caper, but the loot is now back in Canada, thanks to the FBI.
The Canadian Museum of Nature announced Thursday that two tusks from the Ice Age elephantids, which were illegally taken by an American collector in 1960, have been returned to Canada.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation seized the tusks from the Indiana home of well-known and now-dead collector Don Miller.
Miller — who mistakenly thought the tusks were from mastodons — told police he recovered them t
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