First dinosaur bone from Antarctica found in a drawer
The fossil, collected in Antarctica in 1985, is part of the tail of a beast called a Titanosaur.
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""It's only when you start thinking 'what's in this drawer', that sometimes you come across something and you think, 'Ah, this looks interesting'.""
— Dr Mark Evans , Academic
""Although it's not too much to look at, it actually has a really distinctive shape.""
— Prof Paul Barrett , Academic
""As soon as I saw it, I knew what we were dealing with… it was a dead cert we were dealing with a Titanosaur.""
— Prof Paul Barrett , Academic
""It shows that an area that we now think is really uninhabitable was once actually very habitable and had this huge cast of characters living on it.""
— Prof Paul Barrett , Academic
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The fossil, collected in Antarctica in 1985, is part of the tail of a beast called a Titanosaur.
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