Footprints of cretaceous dinosaur found at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Tuesday, August 21, 2012 - 11:31
in Astronomy & Space
About 110 million light years away, the bright, barred spiral galaxy NGC 3259 was just forming stars in dark bands of dust and gas. Here on the part of the Earth where NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center would eventually be built, a plant-eating dinosaur sensed predators nearby and quickened its pace, leaving a deep imprint in the Cretaceous mud.