By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED: 15:12 EST, 26 August 2012 | UPDATED: 15:12 EST, 26 August 2012

In their constant bid to break new ground, it's rare for NASA's news to include any mention of dinosaurs.

But thats exactly what happened this week after a massive footprint of a lumbering, armoured dinosaur called a nodosaur was discovered at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

More than a hundred million years before scientists at NASA's Maryland-based centre were working on exploring the universe, it appears that the site was home to herbivore dinosaurs.

Incredible: A 12-inch-wide dinosaur footprint belonging to an armored, tank-like plant-eater called a nodosaur was discovered at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center this summer; NASA confirmed the discovery this week

Discovery: A model of a nodosaur sits in the giant footprint, which was found by amateur dino-hunter Ray Stanford

The incredible discovery was made all the more exciting after a second track - overlapping with the first - was unearthed suggesting that the tank-link nodosaur had a baby in tow.

The first giant footprint, which measures 12 inches wide and shows the imprint of four toes, was discovered earlier this summer by amateur dinosaur tracker Ray Stanford.

Go here to see the original:

Dinosaur footprints discovered outside NASA's Maryland flight center