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Dinosaur footprints on either side of the Atlantic are matching sets
- oaththrowaway 2y agoPrevious discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41352656 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41352656
- DarkmSparks 2y agoturns out Moses was a dinosaur
- labster 2y agoLet my sauropods go!
- brk 2y agoSo they could swim?
- RoyalHenOil 2y agoSouth America and Africa used to be the same land mass.
- lowkey 2y agoOne of the most fascinating verifiable geography facts I am aware of is that while the oldest known landmasses are on the order of 4 billion years old, the oldest known oceanic techtonic plates are 0.2 billion years old.
- dotnet00 2y agoThe headline makes it sound like they're somehow, by sheer coincidence, matched to the same dinosaur. But it's just the much less sensational and novel seeming find of footprints from the same species.