Dinosaur footprint stolen from archaeological dig.

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Swiss archaeologists were in distress after thieves stole traces of a dinosaur footprint from an excavation site last month.

The footprint, left by a three-tonne Allosaurus dinosaur around 152 million years ago, is about 40 centimetres wide by 70 centimetres long, said Wolfgang Hug, the chief archaeologist at the dig site in Courtedoux, Jura in northwestern Switzerland.

The footprint, discovered while a motorway was under construction in 2002, was the easiest thing to take from among the 4,500 remains at the...

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