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83-Million-Year-Old Fossil Rewrites Timeline of Antarctica’s First Dinosaur Discovery
01 July 2026 EN sci-news ✎ édité manuellement

83-Million-Year-Old Fossil Rewrites Timeline of Antarctica’s First Dinosaur Discovery

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A small fossil collected on an Antarctic island more than four decades ago is a tail vertebra of a titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur that roamed Antarctica roughly 83 million years ago, according to a new paper in the journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. The post 83-Million-Year-Old Fossil Rewrites Timeline of Antarctica’s First Dinosaur Discovery appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News.

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Paul M. Barrett et al. 2026. A titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Antarctica. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 71 (2): 349-362

DOI: 10.4202/app.01315.2025 ↗
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