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First dinosaur fossil from Antarctica found in drawer after lying forgotten for 40 years.

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The first dinosaur fossil from Antarctica has been found in a drawer after lying forgotten for 40 years.The fossil was first unearthed in 1985 but remained tucked away in the geology collection at the British Antarctic Survey headquarters in Cambridge.Now, palaeontologists have determined the bone is a tail vertebra from a Titanosaur, a group that included the most massive land animals in Earth's history.The creature roamed Antarctica approximately 82 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous Period, when the now-frozen continent was blanketed in dense woodland rather than ice sheets.The specimen was collected during an expedition to James Ross Island, with geologist Dr Mike Thomson meticulously recording the find in his field notebook on December 9, 1985.His entry included a small sketch alongside a description noting it as the "vertebra of a large reptile" measuring roughly 10 centimetres across.The original team suspected they had found remains of a marine reptile, leading them...

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