The First Dinosaur Fossil from Antarctica, Hidden in a Drawer for Four Decades
A fossil forgotten in a drawer at the British Antarctic Survey for nearly forty years has been confirmed as the first dinosaur bone discovered from Antarctica — a tail vertebra from a titanosaur that lived 82 million years ago when the continent was covered in warm forests.
A fossil forgotten in a drawer at the British Antarctic Survey for nearly forty years has been confirmed as the first dinosaur bone discovered from Antarctica — a tail vertebra from a titanosaur that lived 82 million years ago when the continent was covered in warm forests.
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