Forgotten for 40 Years in the Drawer of a Museum, This 82 Million-Year-Old Bone Could Belong to a Titan Who Lived in Antarctica.
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NettavisenFor years, the dinosaur fossil lay hidden away in a drawer without being examined by scientists. Now it has been confirmed that it is a unique find from Antarctica – the first of its kind.
A fragment of bone that has been forgotten for forty years has changed paleontology. This vertebra is the first Antarctic dinosaur ever collected. It belonged to a titanosaur, a giant that disappeared 82 million years ago. The first Antarctic dinosaur has long slept in a drawer No one imagined that a single piece of bone was hiding such a discovery. According to a study published in the journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica by Paul Barrett and h…
A fossilized vertebra fragment discovered in Antarctica in 1985 proves to be the first sauropod bone ever found on the continent, according to a recent study. While the fragment had been mistakenly identified as belonging to a marine reptile, extensive analyses showed that it would rather belong to a titanosaur and would now constitute [...] This badly identified article for 40 years, this fossil would actually be the first dinosaur discovered i…
When the researchers finally brought it back out, they were far from disappointed.
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