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[Escape Goat]

GREENBELT, Md. (CNN/NASA) - A dinosaur tracker made a gargantuan find in the middle of a NASA campus in Greenbelt, Md.

As it turns out, Ray Stanford discovered the back footprint of a large dinosaur known as the Nodosaur at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

"And I love the paradox," Stanford says. "Here is space scientists, and they walk along here, and they're walking exactly where this big, bungling, heavy, armored dinosaur walked, maybe 110- to 112 million years ago."

Nodosaur tracks are rarely found in the U.S., according to Stanford.

I guess it just was out in the open for millions of years? Whats going on here? Need more input.

 

[Desperado]

Not sure he understands the definition of "paradox."

 

[Schadenfreude]

Did anyone else immediately think of Jurassic Park 3 when they read the thread title? "It's the- it's the dinosaur man!" Anywho, pretty cool find if it's not a hoax. Not sure how a foot print would have survived in what looks like regular dirt. You'd think the water would have washed it away or something.

 

[noah111]

This makes no sense whatsoever. This went hundreds of thousands of years unscathed by anything at all? Yeah, not buying it. Need to know more.

 

[PigSpeakers]

Holy crap. Do you people not know anything? Dinosaurs are still around. They've always been around. Pull the wool off your eyes! Illuminati and dinosaurs are one and the same, and NASA is connected, and so is every major organization in the world.

 

[TerryLee81]

Guy looks staight from the 80s. So does the blurry pic.

 

[Apath]

I do not comprehend how this could be true.

 

[Lionel Mandrake]

Holy crap. Do you people not know anything? Dinosaurs are still around. They've always been around. Pull the wool off your eyes! Illuminati and dinosaurs are one and the same, and NASA is connected, and so is every major organization in the world.

They live among us. Hiding in plain sight.

Adapting with the ever changing world around them. Watching. Waiting. Waiting for that faithful day when their reign can commence once more.

 

[MasterOfPastures]

Jurassic Park 4: Invasion of the Ionosaurs.

 

[zethren]

Footprints will find a way.

 

[mik83kuu]

I want to leave footprints that stick around in the open for a hundred million years.

 

[Volimar]

Reptile Alien Invasion confirmed.

 

[dekline]

So it sat there exposed to the elements for over one hundred million years and this dude found it at nasa?

hmmm

 

[disappeared]

So it sat there exposed to the elements for over one hundred million years and this dude found it at nasa?

hmmm

Stranger things have happened!

 

[hiryu64]

Already been said, but...

 

[maomaoIYP]

Already been said, but...

Omg, I completely lost it with this gif.

 

[wwm0nkey]

NASA making Dinosaurs CONFIRMED!

 

[dekline]

Stranger things have happened!

And nodosaur tracks are rare apparently. Just seems strange. But it seems a lot of sources are talking about this including NASA themselves so yeah. Pretty cool.

 

[NoirVisage]

Anything can happen..but only if yu tru love.

 

[CorvoSol]

They're all gonna be hella pissed that everybody is gonna be all "LOL aren't you embarrassed?" Expect a statement along the lines of "We're rocket scientists, not rocket scientists!"

 

[Clydefrog]

 

[bjork]

What armor, didn't he hear about the feathers?

 

[Kai Dracon]

Unless that print is actually on the surface of a buried boulder or something, this makes no sense based on what I know.

 

[Rapstah]

Unless that print is actually on the surface of a buried boulder or something, this makes no sense based on what I know.

That's the paradox. If he were anything close to a dinosaur man he'd know that and not say they were real footprints.

 

[Cyan]

Not sure he understands the definition of "paradox."

Time paradox!

 

[gutshot]

And nodosaur tracks are rare apparently. Just seems strange. But it seems a lot of sources are talking about this including NASA themselves so yeah. Pretty cool.

NASA's getting trolled!

At least, according to the armchair paleontologists here on GAF.

 

[Rookje]

 

[vaelic]

 

[Ermac]

ha I used to work at Goddard. Didn't see many dinosaurs tracks around.

 

[akira28]

can't be a bit of petrified mud? I say it's totally a dinosaor footprint or whatever.

 

[BannedEpisode]

Unless that area was disturbed a long while back during construction and nobody noticed the print this seems highly unlikely.

Dinosaur prints arent totally uncommon but they most often found when construction removes beds of limestone or other layered sediment.

 

[FStop7]

What? Bullshit. Millions of years of rain and snow would have washed it away if it were exposed like that.

 

[Jme]

This guy is OBVIOUSLY full of shit, the tracks can't possibly be 110 million years, the earth isn't even that old. Closer to 4000 year old dinosaur track...

 

[BigDes]

They live among us. Hiding in plain sight.

Adapting with the ever changing world around them. Watching. Waiting. Waiting for that faithful day when their reign can commence once more.

They've had how many years to come up with better disguises?

 

[BigDes]

What? Bullshit. Millions of years of rain and snow would have washed it away if it were exposed like that.

There are quite a few dinosaur footprints that lie exposed. Beach in Northern Spain (which irritatingly I forget the name of, apologies) has loads just lying around uncovered

 

[Green Mamba]

What? Bullshit. Millions of years of rain and snow would have washed it away if it were exposed like that.

It wasn't sitting out there like that for all those millions of years. It was covered by sediments for most of that time period, like all fossils. Erosion has since revealed it, which is how almost all fossil sites are found (by dumb luck). It's since sat exposed to the elements at NASA for quite some time, apparently, and has absolutely been damaged by erosion (and apparently a lawn mower maybe?). NASA just didn't know what it was and paid it no attention.

The dinosaur they think made the track would be something like this:

or what Rookje posted.

 

[Demoncarnotaur]

What? Bullshit. Millions of years of rain and snow would have washed it away if it were exposed like that.

This is pretty normal, many times fossils are found sticking out of the ground. The soil probably washed away leaving the fossilized print in clear sight.

 

[Raist]

How the fuck did this survive erosion.

They're all gonna be hella pissed that everybody is gonna be all "LOL aren't you embarrassed?" Expect a statement along the lines of "We're rocket scientists, not rocket scientists!"

"Oh yeah, we saw that one before. We thought it was Johnny's dog. He often takes it to work. He's quite big".

 

[nubbe]

 

[zomaha]

This makes no sense whatsoever. This went 6000 years unscathed by anything at all? Yeah, not buying it. Need to know more.

Fixed

 

[Kinyou]

Fixed

 

[Ezalc]

Unless that print is actually on the surface of a buried boulder or something, this makes no sense based on what I know.

It's based on what you don't know. Why do you think it's a paradox.

 

[danwarb]

Was expecting dinosaur footprints in mars photo.

 

[Mgoblue201]

This makes no sense whatsoever. This went hundreds of thousands of years unscathed by anything at all? Yeah, not buying it. Need to know more.

These kinds of things are usually imprinted upon a substrate and then preserved for millions of years in limestone or some sort of rock just like any other fossil. Footprints have been found that are a lot older than this.

 

[andycapps]

This is cool, but I find it odd that with erosion that it just so happened to erode enough to see that print.

 

[Cyan]

This is cool, but I find it odd that with erosion that it just so happened to erode enough to see that print.

Agreed. I'd have expected him to find one that was already eroded to nothing, or still buried.

Seems like too much of a coincidence.

 

[CrankyJay]

LOL, sounds like some co-workers are playing a prank on this poor guy.

edit: Watched the video...he was brushing away at a rock...I dunno.

 

[FallingEdge]

THERE WAS A PART 3!?!??????

 

[SUPREME1]

This makes no sense whatsoever. This went hundreds of thousands of years unscathed by anything at all? Yeah, not buying it. Need to know more.

I do not comprehend how this could be true.

So it sat there exposed to the elements for over one hundred million years and this dude found it at nasa?

hmmm

Unless that print is actually on the surface of a buried boulder or something, this makes no sense based on what I know.

Unless that area was disturbed a long while back during construction and nobody noticed the print this seems highly unlikely.

Dinosaur prints arent totally uncommon but they most often found when construction removes beds of limestone or other layered sediment.

What? Bullshit. Millions of years of rain and snow would have washed it away if it were exposed like that.

How the fuck did this survive erosion.



"Oh yeah, we saw that one before. We thought it was Johnny's dog. He often takes it to work. He's quite big".

This is cool, but I find it odd that with erosion that it just so happened to erode enough to see that print.

Agreed. I'd have expected him to find one that was already eroded to nothing, or still buried.

Seems like too much of a coincidence.

Don't mind me Nasa scientists... I'm just going to be looking for dinosaur tracks, hopefully I'll come across one. Holy moly, I've found one!

 

[Demoncarnotaur]

Agreed. I'd have expected him to find one that was already eroded to nothing, or still buried.

Seems like too much of a coincidence.

Its kinda "common" to find things like this fully exposed.. He was probably just the first person to know what to look for, and it caught his eye.