Bolor Minjin can imagine the T. bataar inaugurating a new scientific era.

NEWYORKER: Bones of Contention

As Bolor Minjin, Robert Painter, and the rest of the Mongolia contingent watched, elated, from behind a chain-link fence, Homeland Security Investigations agents loaded four large crates onto the truck.

NEWYORKER: Bones of Contention

The auction had come to the attention of the Mongolian government the preceding Friday, after Bolortsetseg Minjin, a Mongolian paleontologist who lives in New York, saw a television report about the auction and suspected that the dinosaur had been taken from her country.

NEWYORKER: Bones of Contention