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

Life reconstruction of the Antarctic titanosaur. Image credit: Andrew McAfee, Carnegie Museum of Natural History.

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.

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