30 August 2024

Matching dinosaur prints in Brazil and Africa

"More than 260 footprints were discovered in Brazil and in Cameroon, showing where land-dwelling dinosaurs were last able to freely cross between South America and Africa millions of years ago before the two continents split apart.

“We determined that in terms of age, these footprints were similar,” Jacobs said. “In their geological and plate tectonic contexts, they were also similar. In terms of their shapes, they are almost identical.”"
Additional information at SMU News.  This was no surprise to me, because back in 2020 I started posting in TWYKIWDBI scans of ten pages of the "humor scrapbook" I started assembling in the 1960s.  Embedded in that scrapbook, from an uncredited source, was this cartoon:

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