Stewens interviewed for The Guardian re Fossil Return
Affiliated researcher Paul Stewens was interviewed for a piece on the repatriation of a rare dinosaur fossil in The Guardian.
He called the removal of specimens from their country of origin for study elsewhere without the involvement of local scientists or institutions was an example of neo-colonial research practices, and called for non-zero sum solutions that benefit both the source country and the host country of illicitly trafficked specimens.
Read the piece here: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/may/02/germany-brazil-irritator-dinosaur-skull-restitution