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NASA Finds Spiny Dinosaur Prints in Own Backyard

NASA/GSFC/Rebecca Roth

At NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, some of the most brilliant minds in the world work to build the spacecraft that humans use to explore their universe. But where space scientists now roam, dinosaurs used to call home, according to dino-hunter Ray Stanford. [Full Story

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