Two men from Western Australia, Michael Latham and Rodney Illingsworth, have
been charged with stealing fossilised dinosaur footprints. The prints, left by a
large three-toed carnivorous dinosaur about 120 million years ago, were sawn
from sandstone near Broome, in the north of the state. The fossil prints are
still missing.
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