In January 1912, German geophysicist Alfred Wegener proposed an idea the scientific world thought was wack. After scrutinizing similar-looking fossils of plants and animals on different land masses, ...

The footprints show where the dinosaurs were able to cross between South America and Africa before the two continents split apart, according to researchers Getty A team of international researchers ...

The Earth might be made up of multiple continents now, but long, long ago, all of the land was connected. At least, that's one of the theories that many scientists have about the earliest days of our ...

Tens of millions of years ago, South America and Africa were part of the same land mass, an ancient supercontinent called Gondwana. At some point, the two continents we now know started to pull away ...

(CNN) — Matching sets of footprints discovered in Africa and South America reveal that dinosaurs once traveled along a type of highway 120 million years ago before the two continents split apart, ...

“We determined that in terms of age, these footprints were similar,” study co-author and Southern Methodist University paleontologist Louis L. Jacobs said in a statement. “In their geological and ...

A team of paleontologists found matching dinosaur footprints on what are now two different continents, separated by thousands of miles of ocean. The footprints, dating back to the Early Cretaceous ...

More than 260 dinosaur footprints found in South America and Africa match up, serving as a reminder of how young Earth's continents still are. Reading time 2 minutes A team of paleontologists has ...

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