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This bone forgotten in a drawer for 40 years has just revealed the very first dinosaur discovered in Antarctica!
01 July 2026 FR futura-terre ✎ édité manuellement ⚙ Auto-translated View in original language

This bone forgotten in a drawer for 40 years has just revealed the very first dinosaur discovered in Antarctica!

bone vertebra Antarctica Late Cretaceous fossil Dinosauria Titanosauria discovery

For almost forty years, it remained forgotten in a drawer in the British Antarctic Survey. This fossil, discovered in Antarctica in 1985, has just been identified as the very first dinosaur fossil ever unearthed on the white continent. A discovery which also sheds light on...

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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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