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Dinosaur tracks and fossils found by Maryland amateur hunter
Ray Stanford, a 79 year old fossil hunter in Maryland, shares his self taught paleoichnology with a visiting reporter. His finds include dinosaur footprints and traces that show how animals lived, with a 2012 discovery compared to the Rosetta Stone. He explains how to locate exposed Triassic to Cretaceous rock and preserve prints, warning that digging is often illegal and noting potential theft risk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Stanford
Smithsonian
National Museum of Natural History
Stanford
mid-Atlantic
Maryland
Martin Lockley
University of Colorado-Denver
Lockley
T. Rex
Velociraptor
NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt
Scientific Reports
U.S. Geological Survey
USGS
Patuxent
Washington