There is still so much to learn about life when dinosaurs ruled the world.
A huge discovery was just made, thanks to a research team led by SMU paleontologist Louis L. Jacobs.
Jacobs' team found matching sets of dinosaur footprints on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean, some 3,700 miles apart! One set of prints was discovered in Brazil, the other in Cameroon.
Jacobs told WFAA, "We determined that in terms of age, these footprints were similar," Jacobs said. "In their geological and plate tectonic contexts, they were also similar. In terms of their shapes, they are almost identical."
The tracks were made 120 million years ago on what was a single supercontinent known as "Gondwana," which according to Jacobs, broke apart from Pangea.
Jacobs said, "One of the youngest and narrowest geological connections between Africa and South America was the elbow of northeastern Brazil nestled against what is now the coast of Cameroon along the Gulf of Guinea.
"The two continents were continuous along that narrow stretch, so that animals on either side of that connection could potentially move across it."
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