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Ray Stanford was driving out of the NASA parking lot in Greenbelt Maryland when he spotted a dinosaur footprint. It was a 110 million year-old nodosaur print, and it wasn’t the only one. The sandstone preserved a Cretaceous moment in time with 70 footprints, a tubular worm and a coprolite, which is fossilized dinosaur poop!
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Australia’s got a little something stuck to its face. It’s a 1.7 billion year-old piece of North America! Geologists found that the sandstone in the Georgetown region of Australia matched rocks in Canada. They believe all the continents merged 1.6 billion years ago to form a supercontinent, Nuna. When they separated, that piece remained.
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