A brazen thief has stolen a dinosaur egg fossil from the Otago Museum.
Staff noticed the fossil, a hadrosaur egg from the Cretaceous period, missing from the Dunedin museum's ground-floor shop early on Tuesday.
They believe the theft was premeditated.
A suspect has been caught on security cameras.
Staff and police are appealing for information.
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