A claim that dinosaur footprint found at NASA center

Washington: An amateur dinosaur hunter claimed to have discovered a rare cretaceous footprint from a nodosaur at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, most likely left more than 110 million years ago.

Ray Stanford believes the dinosaur was running potentially away from a predator, when it left the footprint.

"This is really quite a rare find," the New York Daily News quoted Mr Stanford as saying in a video posted on NASA's website this week.

"Nodosaur tracks are not often found. 

"There are some out West and up in British Columbia and Canada, but we don't have a whole lot of them in the US," he said.

Stanford told the Washington Post that the plant-eating dinosaur made the nearly 14-inch-wide imprint with his back left foot.

Excited by the discovery, NASA scientists have accepted Stanford's research, and will reportedly bring in more expert opinions to fully confirm the finding.