A dinosaur skeleton is scheduled to be taken by U.S. authorities on Friday from the custody of an auction house after a judge permitted its seizure for its likely return home to Mongolia.

Heritage Auctions Co-Chairman Jim Halperin said the Dallas-based company, the dinosaur's current custodian, looks forward to releasing the dinosaur after it was assured it will be properly and carefully transported and stored by the government in a secure, climate-controlled and fully insured art storage facility.