- Paleontologists found matching Early Cretaceous dinosaur footprints in Brazil and Cameroon, showing where dinosaurs walked before Africa and South America split.
- The footprints, mostly from three-toed theropods, date back 120 million years and reveal how dinosaurs migrated across the supercontinent Gondwana.
- Geological evidence supports that these areas were connected before the continents drifted apart, forming the South Atlantic Ocean.
Dinosaur footprints from Africa and South America are a match
https://www.popsci.com/science/dinosaur-footprints-match/
3 Comments
PixTupy@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 1y
One of the many reasons I wish my phone camera was a time machine.
ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
now just imagine how big that dinosaur was!
m3t00@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
nyt version. wasn't pay-walled, mysteriously. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/science/dinosaur-tracks-brazil-cameroon.html