Chile will ask the Natural History Museum in London to return the remains of an extinct animal that lived in Patagonia about 10,000 years ago.
The specimens belong to a ground-dwelling mammal known as a mylodon and were taken to the United Kingdom in 1897 for research but were never returned to Chile, according to officials.
Chilean Minister of National Assets Felipe Ward will travel to London this month for talks over the remains of the animal that once roamed the regions of what is now Chile and Argentina.
"We hope to have talks with the museum authorities ... and seek to repatriate the mylodon's remains; these are bones and skin that are in storage, not even being exhibited," Ward told reporters on Sunday.
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