A BRISK black market and competing bureaucracies could undermine the scientific payoff from fossil-rich Liaoning Province in north-east China.
Weak laws, experts say, have failed to halt the illegal excavation and trade in fossils and scientific research is being hindered by confusing local rules, a report in the latest edition of Science magazine says.
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