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Scientists aim camera at fossilized dino tracks

A dinosaur tracksite is photographed from air by helicopter on Friday July 25 2008. There is evidence that an illegal plaster cast of a footprint was made. Researchers in a specially equipped helicopter crisscrossed an area called the Moccasin Mou ...
A dinosaur tracksite is photographed from air by helicopter on Friday, July 25, 2008. There is evidence that an illegal plaster cast of a footprint was made. Researchers in a specially equipped helicopter crisscrossed an area called the Moccasin Mountain track site, shooting photos of fossilized footprints scattered across the red sandstone. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Mark Havnes)
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(AP) -- Call them the paleo-paparazzi. Scientists trying to learn more about dinosaurs are snapping aerial photos of tracks left behind millions of years ago near southern Utah's Coral Pink Sand Dunes.



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Posted by DGBEACH 07/29/08 15:36
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There is evidence that an illegal plaster cast of a footprint was made.

What does someone making a plaster-cast of the print have to do with the subject??? confusing
 

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