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Article: Park ranger fights fossil theft.(Ranger Vincent L. Santucci protect fossils at Petrified Forest National Park)
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- Children's Digest
- Article date:
- October 1, 1994
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Steven Spielberg's movie Jurassic Park showed a group of people trying to escape from a pack of hungry, meat-eating dinosaurs. Vincent L. Santucci believes real-life dinosaur fossils need protection from people, not the other way around. "We want people to enjoy it [the Petrified Forest National Park!," says Park Ranger Santucci, "but we want them to know that our problems are a little different than those in Jurassic Park."
Meet Park Ranger Santucci
Ranger Santucci is a Paleontologist/Park Ranger working for the National Park Service. He works at the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. The Petrified Forest National Park is located on 100,000 ...