112-million-year-old dinosaur tracks damaged in Utah

Published April 5, 2022 4:46pm ET



A construction crew damaged 112-million-year-old dinosaur footprints when attempting to repair a boardwalk at the Mill Canyon Dinosaur Tracksite in Utah.

The Bureau of Land Management announced the mishap regarding the fragile trace fossils in a recently released assessment calling for more oversight by paleontologists.

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