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Dinosaur footprints from Africa and South America are a match (www.popsci.com)
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  • 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.
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

nyt version. wasn't pay-walled, mysteriously. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/science/dinosaur-tracks-brazil-cameroon.html

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

now just imagine how big that dinosaur was!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

One of the many reasons I wish my phone camera was a time machine.