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Dinosaur Footprints on Either Side of the Atlantic Are Matching Sets
More than 260 dinosaur footprints found in South America and Africa match up, serving as a reminder of how young Earth's continents still are.
Other tracks included hundreds of prints belonging to sauropods (think big boys like Brontosaurus) and ornithischian dinosaurs, so-named for their bird-like hip bones. “The two continents were continuous along that narrow stretch, so that animals on either side of that connection could potentially move across it.” Gizmodo was unable to access a copy of the paper, published by the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science. In 2021, a different team of paleontologists calculated the speed of a dinosaur based on the footprints it left behind and found the animals could move at nearly 28 miles per hour, about as fast as the world’s fastest humans.
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