Aborigines upset by theft

MELBOURNE - Fossil hunters have stolen a unique set of dinosaur footprints from a piece of sacred rock in outback Australia, …

MELBOURNE - Fossil hunters have stolen a unique set of dinosaur footprints from a piece of sacred rock in outback Australia, outraging local aborigines.

The thieves apparently used power tools to remove the four footprints, believed to date from aboriginal dream time

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