00:00hundreds of millions of years ago our planet looked a whole lot different as the land masses
00:08we know today we're still touching before significant continental drift and researchers
00:13have found more evidence of it yet again they have discovered two sets of fossilized dinosaur
00:17footprints one in cameroon in central africa and the other in brazil in south america they
00:22say this showcases the final land bridge between the two continents where the prehistoric creatures
00:27could cross the two continents which were once called gandwana separated some 120 million years
00:32ago and are now over 3 700 miles away with an ocean between them this infographic shows the
00:38gradual separation of pangea eventually culminating in the continental layout we know today the
00:43geophysicist discovered some 260 footprints coming from three distinct species of dinosaurs with the
00:50researchers writing we determined that in terms of age these footprints were similar in their
00:54geological and plate tectonic contexts they were also similar in terms of their shapes they are
00:59almost identical the researchers say finding these footprints will allow them to better understand
01:04how the land mass is separated
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