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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!

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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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We also have bands of fossil animals and plants that extend across the split. There’s lots not of support for Pangea.

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Pangaea, she reaches through the eons

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The dishes are done, man!

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That’s both cool and hot

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