🇬🇧🇸🇬 MILLIONS IN DINOSAURS SEIZED FROM SINGAPORE TYCOON IN MASSIVE LAUNDERING CASE
Turns out money laundering doesn’t just buy yachts and watches - it also gets you a couple of dinosaurs.
British authorities have seized £12.4 million worth of Jurassic fossils, including 2 Allosauruses and a Stegosaurus, from Singaporean businessman Su Binghai, who’s linked to a sprawling £2.5 billion laundering case.
Binghai bought the fossils at Christie's last year like he was on a prehistoric shopping spree.
In Singapore, he’s one of the key figures in a laundering ring that moved billions through gold bars, luxury cars, crypto, and property, with 10 people already jailed.
He’s already surrendered £240 million in assets there, but apparently forgot to mention the dinosaur collection stashed in London.
Source: Daily Mail
🇦🇷 NEW “DINOSAUR-EATING CROCODILE” UNEARTHED IN ARGENTINA
Meet Kostensuchus atrox - a 550-pound “hypercarnivore” croc cousin that stalked Patagonia 70 million years ago, with jaws built for puncturing dinosaurs.
Scientists found the near-complete skeleton, enamel-coated teeth and all, while digging up a plant-eater.
Turns out, this beast was the apex predator of its floodplain - think lion, but scaly, semi-aquatic, and hungry.
Unlike today’s crocs, its nostrils faced forward and its eyes sat on the sides of its skull, suggesting it hunted on land - where herbivore dinos grazed.
At 11.5 feet long, it was the second-biggest predator in the region, but being a specialized meat addict may have sealed its fate when the mass extinction hit.
Smaller, less picky croc species survived.
Sometimes being the baddest thing on the floodplain means you’re the first to go...
Source: PLOS One, CNN