Antarctica Reveals Its First Dinosaur Bone Hidden in a Forgotten Drawer
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A fossil forgotten for 40 years in a Cambridge drawer has been identified as the tail vertebra of a Titanosaur, marking Antarctica’s first dinosaur bone. Originally collected in 1985 on James Ross Island during a British Antarctic Survey expedition, the specimen was re-examined by paleontologists from the Natural History Museum who confirmed the find; the dinosaur was about 23 feet long and lived around 82 million years ago when Antarctica was forested and warmer.
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