The footprints, impressed into mud and silt along ancient rivers and lakes, were found more than 3,700 miles, or 6,000 kilometers, away from each other. Dinosaurs made the tracks 120 million years ago on a single supercontinent known as Gondwana—which broke off from the larger landmass of Pangea, Jacobs said.
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Dinosaur teleportation technology proved!
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Fun fact: dinosaurs that lived a long time ago had feet, just like the dinosaurs that live today also have feet.
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It is a relief that there are no continental drift deniers.
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One of the many pieces of the puzzle of plate tectonics that was finished in the middle 1900s. Before that, people had crazy ideas.
So does this just prove the same species existed between the two or are these actually like from the same dinosaur, at the same time, and then got separated
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That's a heck of a stride, wow
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Pangaea, she reaches through the eons
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We also have bands of fossil animals and plants that extend across the split. There's lots not of support for Pangea.
That's both cool and hot
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