Fossil hunters uncover 132-million-year-old dinosaur footprints on South Africa's coast - Phys.org
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Fossil hunters uncover 132-million-year-old dinosaur footprints on South Africa's coast - Phys.org

Source:Phys.Org
Author:Charles Helm, Willo Stear

Southern Africa is world renowned for its fossil record of creatures that lived in the very distant past, including dinosaurs. But, about 182 million years ago, a huge eruption of lava covered much of the landscape (the inland Karoo Basin) where most of the d…