Paleontologists Discover Matching Sets of Dinosaur Footprints in Africa and South America
1 min readImage caption: A footprint of theropod dinosaur from Sousa Basin, northeastern Brazil. Image credit: Ismar de Souza Carvalho / SMU. Article by News Staff. Sci.News – August 26, 2024. Source: SMU Research News. Study: PDF.
A team of paleontologists led by Southern Methodist University has discovered more than 260 footprints of Early Cretaceous dinosaurs in Brazil and in Cameroon, showing where land-dwelling dinosaurs were last able to freely cross between South America and Africa millions of years ago before the two continents split apart. […]