MEXICO CITY: A team of paleontologists has discovered identical dinosaur footprints on two different continents thousands of miles apart.
Footprints, dating back to the early Cretaceous period, have been found in Brazil and Cameroon.
Researchers wrote in a study published by the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science that the discovery suggests that land-dwelling dinosaurs roamed freely between South America and Africa before the two continents separated millions of years ago. were passable.
The researchers studied more than 260 footprints discovered in mud along the shores of ancient rivers and lakes that spanned more than 3,700 miles—footprints in South America and Africa.
Paleontologists believe that the traces show that the dinosaurs were similar in age, shape, geological and plate tectonic context.
