Hundreds of million of years ago our planet looked a whole lot different, as the continents we know today were still touching before significant continental drift. Now, researchers say, they have found evidence of it yet again in the form of footprints.
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00:00hundreds of millions of years ago our planet looked a whole lot different as the land masses
00:08we know today we're still touching before significant continental drift and researchers
00:13have found more evidence of it yet again they have discovered two sets of fossilized dinosaur
00:17footprints one in cameroon in central africa and the other in brazil in south america they
00:22say this showcases the final land bridge between the two continents where the prehistoric creatures
00:27could cross the two continents which were once called gandwana separated some 120 million years
00:32ago and are now over 3 700 miles away with an ocean between them this infographic shows the
00:38gradual separation of pangea eventually culminating in the continental layout we know today the
00:43geophysicist discovered some 260 footprints coming from three distinct species of dinosaurs with the
00:50researchers writing we determined that in terms of age these footprints were similar in their
00:54geological and plate tectonic contexts they were also similar in terms of their shapes they are
00:59almost identical the researchers say finding these footprints will allow them to better understand
01:04how the land mass is separated