More than 260 dinosaur footprints discovered in Brazil and Cameroon provide further evidence that South America and Africa were once connected as part of a giant continent millions of years ago, ...

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, ...

“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 ...

DALLAS — A team of researchers, led by SMU paleontologist Louis L. Jacobs, found matching sets of Early Cretaceous dinosaur footprints on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean – in Brazil and Cameroon.

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 ...

A group of scientists say in new research that matching dinosaur tracks found in modern-day Brazil and Cameroon were made 120 million years ago in... Matching dinosaur prints were found an ocean apart ...