By Jennifer Dobner SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - A Utah man has admitted stealing, and then throwing away, a very rare fossilized dinosaur footprint, but will not spend any time in prison, according to court documents. Jared Ehlers, a 35-year-old construction worker, pleaded guilty on Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City to one federal charge of removing a paleontological resource. The footprint was embedded in a 150-pound (70-kg) rock slab in the Sand Flats Recreation Area, near Moab, about 235 miles (380 km) southeast of Salt Lake City. The print dates from the Jurassic period and is thought to be about 190 million years old, according to paleontologists from the Bureau of Land Management. Read More http://ift.tt/1s07tP9
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