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Matching Dinosaur Prints Found in Africa and South America!

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Scientists have made a remarkable discovery… More than 260 dinosaur prints found fossilized in Africa and South America match! That means these beasts roamed the land prior to the continents splitting apart!

The footprints were of similar age,  about 120 million years old, and were pressed into mud and silt of ancient riverbanks and lakeshores. The tracks were made on land that is now part of Brazil and Cameroon, two countries separated by over 3,000 miles (4,828 kilometers) of ocean. Back then, the land was part of the Gondwana supercontinent.

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It’s pretty wild to think that these ancient beasts once roamed freely across lands that are now separated by oceans. These footprints are like echoes from a time when the world’s land masses were more connected, and dinosaurs were the undisputed rulers of the land.
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