At the end of January, French customs officers discovered nine large dinosaurs teeth in a truck at the end of January at Menton motorway near Menton in the south of France. The driver did not have the right papers for transport.
The truck was en route from Spain to Italy. The teeth were in two packages intended for private individuals near Genoa and Milan.
The millions of years old fossils are a very special find, stresses customs. For such goods, a proves of import, property and transport is normally required. But the truck driver could not present that.
Further research into the identity of the customers is now following, to determine what will happen to the dinner teeth. They may be returned to the country of origin (Morocco).
According to a specialist from the prehistoric museum in Menton, these are fossilized teeth of dinosaurs that lived in the sea 72 to 66 million years ago in the area of present -day Morocco. It is a tooth of a plesiosaurus, three teeth of a Mosasaurus and five teeth of a Dyrosaurus, an ancestor of the current crocodiles.