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Socialist Mormon Satanist@lemmy.worldBanned to science@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

Matching dinosaur footprints found on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean

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Matching dinosaur footprints found on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean

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Socialist Mormon Satanist@lemmy.worldBanned to science@lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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An international team of researchers led by SMU paleontologist Louis L. Jacobs has found matching sets of Early Cretaceous dinosaur footprints on what are now two different continents.
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  • Socialist Mormon Satanist@lemmy.worldBannedOP
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    The footprints, impressed into mud and silt along ancient rivers and lakes, were found more than 3,700 miles, or 6,000 kilometers, away from each other. Dinosaurs made the tracks 120 million years ago on a single supercontinent known as Gondwana—which broke off from the larger landmass of Pangea, Jacobs said.

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      What a neat find!

  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
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    Dinosaur teleportation technology proved!

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      I think only the Voth developed that tech.

    • aviationeast@lemmy.world
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      No, they swam. Like iguanas. Duh.

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    Fun fact: dinosaurs that lived a long time ago had feet, just like the dinosaurs that live today also have feet.

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      Yes, but they generally had twice as many back then.

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        Bring the extra feet back!

        -kfc

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    One of the many pieces of the puzzle of plate tectonics that was finished in the middle 1900s. Before that, people had crazy ideas.

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    Pangaea, she reaches through the eons

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      Reunite Pangea

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      The dishes are done, man!

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    That’s a heck of a stride, wow

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