Dinosaurs: Long Dead but Still on the Move

The world looked very different millions of years ago. Due to continental drift, the remains of the dinosaurs have traveled thousands of kilometers even while firmly embedded in rock. The bones of Sue, for example, the most complete T-Rex specimen ever found, traveled 2072 kilometers over the course of 67 million years! Her remains moved in a relatively straight line, from the latitude and longitude of today’s Northern Quebec to South Dakota where she was found.

The remains of Europasaurus, a tiny relative of the massive Brachiosaurus, had been on a 155 million-year zigzag journey across Europe before being dug up in central Germany in 1998. That means it was moving about 50% slower than Sue on average.

Learn all about it in this week's blog post.