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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

What a neat find!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Dinosaur teleportation technology proved!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think only the Voth developed that tech.

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

Pffffft

The Voth are pushovers, I can destroy one of their city ships with a Miranda Class.

Oh what's with the 15 other ships flying around the area? Don't mind them. Just my bros. Totally solo'd. Mhmm.

Man, what is it with Sci fi and having futuristic tech from Dino-descendants.

I'm not complaining, I want more.

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

No, they swam. Like iguanas. Duh.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fun fact: dinosaurs that lived a long time ago had feet, just like the dinosaurs that live today also have feet.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but they generally had twice as many back then.

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

Bring the extra feet back!

-kfc

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It is a relief that there are no continental drift deniers.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's not true. Pangaea is a libtard hoax designed by the globalists to make you think the world was smaller at a time and normalise everyday Americans losing their jobs to China. In reality China has always been this far away and stone age American traders would have also had high import tax on shoddy imported axes and knives.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Everybody knows Americans in the ancient era should focus on scouting its home continent so you can plan and maximise the manifest destiny modifier

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

That's only because it's too abstract a concept for them to get riled up about. They just fold it into their young earth creationism and go on not thinking about it because it hurts their head.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Let me tell you about these people that call themselves "flat-earthers"...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

One of the many pieces of the puzzle of plate tectonics that was finished in the middle 1900s. Before that, people had crazy ideas.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I'm assuming the same species. But if it was the same dino at same time, that'd be badass! But I just don't think that would be possible to know.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Actually it was the same Apatosaurus, Triceratops, Saurolophus, Pteranodon, and Stegosaurus tracks on both sides. They led into this hard to find valley.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not seeing where it says specifically says that the tracks were made by the same individual dinosaurs, rather than by the same types of dinosaurs. The footprints found in Brazil and Cameroon are described as being "almost identical" in shape, and they are attributed to similar species, such as theropods, sauropods, or ornithischians.

The focus of the article is on the matching footprints being evidence that land-dwelling dinosaurs of similar species could move across the continents before they split, rather than suggesting they were left by the exact same individual dinosaurs.

Or is there a different article that is about these same footprints that says they are the same individuals?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure they're just making a Land Before Time reference, not a serious claim (did those species even live during the same time periods in real life?)

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh ok! haha I didn't get the reference. My bad!

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

Don't feel bad, it took until "valley" for me to realize, and those movies were my jam as a child.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Those are my exact thoughts

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's a heck of a stride, wow

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

insane power stance, something straight out of an anime with the character standing on either side of an expanding chasm

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Pangaea, she reaches through the eons

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

The dishes are done, man!

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

We also have bands of fossil animals and plants that extend across the split. There's lots ~~not~~ of support for Pangea.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

That's both cool and hot