France on Monday announced it was returning the skeleton of a large carnivorous dinosaur that criminals smuggled out of Mongolia about 10 years ago. The skeleton belongs to a two-legged Tarbosaurus bataar, which could grow to a length of 10-12 metres. The species once hunted other large dinosaurs in the floodplains of present-day Mongolia and parts of China. French customs seized the dinosaur skeleton and a further 217 fossils from Mongolia in 2015. All the finds, with an estimated value of around €6 million ($6.98 million), were returned to Mongolia. “With today’s return to Mongolia of this e…