时间:2019-01-14 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2012年(十一月)


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Amateur Dinosaur 1 Tracker Uncovers Some Rare Fossils



On most sunny days, Ray Stanford can be found along creeks 2 in College Park, Maryland, in the Washington suburbs. Stanford began hunting for fossil footprints 18 years ago. Since then, Stanford has collected more than a thousand footprints of various kinds of dinosaurs 3. He turned his living room into what he calls the "Stanford Museum."


Standford says a fossilized baby dinosaur in his collection is one of the only known hatchling dinosaurs of any kind.


"It is a natural cast of the mummy of a nodosaur fossil, an armored dinosaur that grew to be very large and heavy as an adult," Standford notes.


Standford donated some of his findings to the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington. They are displayed in the "Dinosaurs in Our Backyard" exhibit.


"Most importantly, he has found footprints of dinosaurs that we haven't found bones of yet. So because he has found the footprints, you know that these dinosaurs lived here. We didn't have the information before Ray discovered them," notes Matthew Carrano, the museum's curator.


Recently Stanford surprised even scientists at the U.S. space agency by finding a dinosaur footprint on the grounds of NASA's Space Flight Center in the Washington suburbs. 


Stanford calls himself an amateur paleontologist. But he has co-authored scientific papers with other scientists.


"It is a great pleasure. You are seeing something that no one has ever seen. That gives you a great sense of discovery, which is very exciting to me," says Stanford.


Ray Stanford plans to keep on tracking until "there is nothing left to find." 




n.恐龙
  • Are you trying to tell me that David was attacked by a dinosaur?你是想要告诉我大卫被一支恐龙所攻击?
  • He stared at the faithful miniature of the dinosaur.他凝视著精确的恐龙缩小模型。
n.小湾( creek的名词复数 );小港;小河;小溪
  • The prospect lies between two creeks. 矿区位于两条溪流之间。 来自辞典例句
  • There was the excitement of fishing in country creeks with my grandpa on cloudy days. 有在阴雨天和姥爷一起到乡村河湾钓鱼的喜悦。 来自辞典例句
n.恐龙( dinosaur的名词复数 );守旧落伍的人,过时落后的东西
  • The brontosaurus was one of the largest of all dinosaurs. 雷龙是所有恐龙中最大的一种。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years. 恐龙绝种已有几百万年了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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