Dinosaur-egg bandit arrested, police announce

Chinese police have arrested a man accused of stealing dozens of fossilized dinosaur eggs, authorities said on Monday.

The man, surnamed Wang, allegedly stole 80 of the eggs from a collector in Tiantai county of East China's Zhejiang province on the night of Jan 9 with the help of three accomplices, according to the Heilongjiang provincial police department.

Wanghad previously visited the collector twice under the pretext of wishing to make a purchase, a police statement said.