Baby dinosaur prints found

JEFFERSON COUNTY - The world's first set of baby stegosaurus footprints may have been discovered in a rock in the parking lot of Morrison's Natural History Museum.

If confirmed, it would be the smallest stegosaurus footprint in the world.

Stegosaurus was an egg-laying, plant-eating dinosaur that lived during the Jurassic Period about 150 million years ago. It was up to 30-feet long and could weigh more than five tons. The first stegosaurus fossil was found in a quarry above Morrison in 1876. It was officially recognized as Colorado's state fossil in 1982.

Matthew Mossbrucker, curator of the museum, regularly leads tours through the city facility. He says the Hogback, the rock formation that runs from north to south through Colorado, has turned up fossils from many species of dinosaurs. The museum features a number of dinosaur bones and tracks found nearby.

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