Tourists at a Utah state park are mistaking dinosaur tracks for ordinary rocks and throwing them into a nearby lake, causing “substantial impact” to the historic site. “The dinosaur track site is deteriorating due to human impact,” the Red Fleet State Park said in a statement posted to Facebook. Josh Hansen, the park manager, told The Salt Lake Tribune he recently caught a young tourist tossing rocks into the lake, and was able to intervene before two imprints from a partial dinosaur track were about to be destroyed. What they don't realize is these rocks they're picking up, they're covered in dinosaur tracks." In 2001, three teenagers were tried in juvenile court for destroying a paleontological site at Red Fleet State Park.

Source: Fox News May 08, 2018 05:37 UTC