Dino tracker finds trove of prints in D.C. suburb

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:35:03 GMT

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Ray Stanford pulls into the lot of a fast-food restaurant on a suburban commercial strip and parks at the back. Wearing high rubber boots and carrying a backpack, he makes his way through the brush and down to a stream bank littered with wrappers and cups.

He's come to track dinosaurs.

Stanford, a 69-year-old Texan, has been combing Maryland stream beds for evidence of dinosaurs for the past 13 years. The result is an unprecedented collection of footprints that were left behind 112 million years ago — found in an area where none had been reported before.

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Dino tracker finds trove of prints in D.C. suburb