Scientists aim camera at fossilized dino tracks

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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)

(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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