In nineteen-oh-six, scientists began to study the bones found in La Brea.
VOA: special.2010.04.07
But a row over how and where to bury the presumed remains of Tsar Nicholas II, killed by the Bolsheviks in 1918, has rattled on for six years now since the bones were discovered near Yekaterinburg.
Eric Prokopi, 38, said he would surrender the 70 million-year-old Tarbosaurus bataar skeleton, known as "Ty, " and give up any claims to six other dinosaurs and various other bones in a cooperation deal that might win him leniency from charges that carry a potential prison sentence of up to 17 years.