#3132: Coastline Similarity

XKCD comic, described below.
Transcript

[Miss Lenhart is holding a pointer pointing to a wall map. The map shows South America and Africa, with the east coast of South America and the southwest coast of Africa highlighted in red.]

Miss Lenhart: People had long noticed that South America and Africa had similarly-shaped coastlines.

[A side view of the classroom. Jill and Cueball are sitting at school desks, looking at Miss Lenhart. The wall map is visible behind Miss Lenhart.]

Miss Lenhart: In the 20th century, geologists finally found the explanation:

[The same scene, with Cueball having his hands on his face.]

Cueball: Plagiaris--

Miss Lenhart: Continental drift.

Cueball: Oh.


(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)

Title text:Hey! A bunch of the early Cretaceous fossils on each coast seem to have been plagiarized, too!


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