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
00:12have 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 say this
00:23showcases the final land bridge between the two continents where the prehistoric creatures could
00:27cross the two continents which were once called gandwana separated some 120 million years ago
00:33and are now over 3 700 miles away with an ocean between them this infographic shows the gradual
00:38separation of pangea eventually culminating in the continental layout we know today the geophysicist
00:44discovered some 260 footprints coming from three distinct species of dinosaurs with the researchers
00:50writing we determined that in terms of age these footprints were similar in their geological and
00:55plate tectonic contexts they were also similar in terms of their shapes they are almost identical
01:00the researchers say finding these footprints will allow them to better understand how the landmass is
01:06separated
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