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Reward Offered for Stolen Dinosaur Footprint Near Moab
A group of local outfitters is joining the Bureau of Land Management in offering a cash reward for information on a Jurassic-era dinosaur footprint stolen last week from a trail near Moab.
The Moab Times reports that the perfectly preserved 190 million-year-old track was pried from the surrounding sandstone on or around February 18. The theft of the track has upset both paleontologists and guide services who lead tours in the area:
ReBecca Hunt-Foster, a paleontologist with the Moab BLM office, said the stolen artifact is “priceless.”
“When fossil resources like dinosaur tracks are damaged, vandalized or stolen, we all lose something priceless,” Hunt-Foster said. “These fossils belong to all Americans. When fossils like these are taken, we lose irreplaceable scientific and educational opportunities to explore some of the natural history that makes Utah’s public lands so special.”
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