The first dinosaur bone ever discovered on the continent of Antarctica was confirmed last week, forty years after it was picked up on the Antarctic Peninsula in 1985 and stored in a museum drawer in Cambridge — a tail vertebra from a titanosaur, the group that included the largest animals ever to walk on land

The first dinosaur ever confirmed from Antarctica had been sitting in a drawer for forty years. Mike Thomson, the BAS geologist who picked the fossil up off the surface of James Ross Island in December 1985, was not a dinosaur specialist. He was a geologist mapping the rock strata of the Late Cretaceous marine formations [...] The post The first dinosaur bone ever discovered on the continent of Antarctica was confirmed last week, forty years after it was picked up on the Antarctic Peninsula in 1