Researcher: Stegosaur Babies Made Tracks

May 25th, 2007 By ERIC W. BOLIN , Associated Press Writer Researcher: Stegosaur Babies Made Tracks

Matthew Mossbrucker, director and chief curator of the Morrison Natural History Museum, holds a casting of a hatchling Stegosaurus footprint in front of a footprint of an adult Stegosaurus at the museum in Morrison, Colo., Wednesday, May 23, 2007. Two of the rare hatchling footprints were found by Mossbrucker during a dig near Morrison. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

(AP) -- Researcher Matt Mossbrucker believes four small dinosaur tracks found within sight of the skyscrapers of downtown Denver were made by two stegosaur babies, a find he says would be "incredibly rare."



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