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Were the dinosaurs around during the continental drift?

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Continental drift is always occurring. It always has occurred. The continents move at about the rate our fingernails grow, so it's not detectable without advanced instruments, but it does and always has happened. This also applies to the 230 million years and counting that there have been dinosaurs. read more

Yes they did. Continental drift is, actually, nonstoping, happening every day, since billions of years of Earth existence. The first continental drift happened billions of years ago, and dinosaurs existed for 231 million years. This means that dinosaurs were still around during the continental drifts. read more

Continental drift was a good hypothesis that was rejected by other scientists. A key part of Wegener’s hypothesis was that some unknown force had caused the continents to slide over, or push through, the rocky bottoms of the oceans. read more

Dinosaurs (Greek: δεινόσαυρος, deinosauros) were the dominant vertebrate animals of terrestrial ecosystems for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic Period (about 230 million years ago) until the end of the Cretaceous period (65 million years ago), when most of them became extinct in the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event. read more

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