A man has been arrested in China's northeast Heilongjiang province for allegedly stealing 80 fossilised dinosaur eggs, State media reported on Monday.
The man, surnamed Wang, visited a dinosaur egg collector in Zhejiang province twice on the pretext of purchasing eggs.
With the help of three accomplices, he stole 80 eggs on January 9 before fleeing to Shanghai. The group divided the eggs and Wang took 27 of them, Xinhua news agency reported.