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Wegener also found some evidence for continental drift from fossils of plants and animals. The same type of plant/animal fossils are found on continents that are now far apart from each other. These Plants & Animals would not have been able to swim the oceans. Fossils of the seed fern Glossopteris are found across all of the south continents. These seeds are too heavy to be carried away across the ocean by wind. Mesosaurus fossils are found in South America and South Africa. Mesosaurus is a creature that could swim, but only in FRESH water. Cynognathus and Lystrosaurus were reptiles that lived on land. Both of these animals could not swim at all. Their fossilised parts have been found across South America, Africa, India and Antarctica. Wegener

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