Goddard scientists study outer space on land where dinosaurs once roamed, including fierce carnivores, and newly discovered dino prints prove it, dinosaur tracker says. Just 11 days after the Curiosity rover touched down on the Red Planet, back on earth, tracker Ray Stanford stood on NASA Goddard soil announcing a more terrestrial breakthrough—dinosaur footprints. That's footprints, plural— in Prince George's County. Stanford Friday came on Goddard's Space Flight Center's campus and showed them what he believes is the track of a large armored dinosaur called a nodosaur. But he also identified several smaller footprints of a deadly beast—the three-toed flesh-eating theropod. Goddard reported on both announcements. The discovery didn't end there, though. Stanford said in an interview with Patch Wednesday that he identified a likely iguanodon as well, a beaked dinosaur with thumb spikes, and he suspects the possibility of tracks for pterosaur, a flying reptile, in that spot. "There could be anything there," he said. NASA lies in an area where a giant tsunami swept inland over the area 34.5 million years ago and "washed millions of years of sediment away right down to where the dinosaurs walked," Stanton said. Read more: http://uppermarlboro.patch.com/arti...nd-spike-toed-iguanodon-found-at-nasa-goddard
