Drawer-Stashed Fossil Reveals Antarctica's Earliest Dinosaur
TL;DR
A fossil bone tucked away in the British Antarctic Survey archives for 40 years has been confirmed as Antarctica's earliest dinosaur, a Late Cretaceous sauropod tail vertebra from James Ross Island. Reanalyzed by BAS scientists, the lithostrotian titanosaur adds to Antarctica's rare dinosaur record and could shed light on Gondwana dispersal; the find, published in Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, is only the second sauropod fossil known from the continent.
- Fossil Kept in a Drawer For 40 Years Turns Out to Be Antarctica's First Evidence of Dinosaurs ScienceAlert
- Antarctica's first ever dinosaur bone discovered in a drawer BBC
- A rare dinosaur fossil from Antarctica is found tucked away in a drawer KSL News
- First ever dinosaur fossil discovered on Antarctica identified as a titanosaur Natural History Museum
- First ever dinosaur found in Antarctica described for science Phys.org
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