Vandals have taken a hammer to a 115 million year-old dinosaur footprint at a world renowned site in Australia, with officials Wednesday slamming the “sad and callous” act. The footprint of the medium-sized theropod was found by palaeontologists in 2006 at Flat Rocks in Victoria state — one of only a handful of polar, or ice-age, dinosaur sites in the world. Parks Victoria said the footprint was significant as it represented a moment frozen in time when a meat-eating dinosaur stood on that spot. “The thrill of seeing a real dinosaur footprint has been diminished with the callous act of vandalism,” he said. “Fortunately, I was able to retrieve some of the broken pieces of the footprint and hopefully the technicians at Museum Victoria may be able to restore the footprint to some degree.”

Source: Pakistan Today December 20, 2017 03:00 UTC