Antarctica’s first dinosaur fossil found in a drawer | BBC News

An unassuming lumpy grey fossil that’s been sitting, forgotten in a drawer in Cambridge for the last 40 years has turned out to be something very precious.

It was collected during an expedition to Antarctica in 1985, but after being re-discovered by the collections manager, it’s now been analysed by scientists and has proved to be the first dinosaur bone ever discovered in Antarctica.

Not only that, but it’s from a type of Titanosaur – the family of dinosaurs that were the largest ever to walk the Earth. Its re-discovery gives us a better understanding of how these giants roamed all parts of the Earth millions of years ago.

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Photo credit: Andrew McAfee Carnegie Museum of Natural History

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