Dinosaur footprints from Africa and South America are a match
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Dinosaur footprints from Africa and South America are a match
https://www.popsci.com/science/dinosaur-footprints-match/
The tracks from a once-unified landmass are now 3,700 miles and an ocean apart.
- 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.