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Scientists Found Antarctica’s First Dinosaur Fossil Hiding in a Museum Drawer
A tail bone collected in 1985 was finally identified as belonging to a titanosaur, helping fill a major gap in Antarctica’s dinosaur record.
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We’re living in a golden age of scientists making major discoveries not by tirelessly digging at remote sites, but by digging through old museum drawers full of stuff collected long before anyone had the tools or expertise to appreciate what it really was. Earlier this year, researchers at London’s Natural History Museum identified an ancient snake species from a fossil that had been chilling in a drawer for decades.
It’s happened again, this time with the first dinosaur fossil ever discovered in Antarctica…and then rediscovered in a drawer.
According to a study published in Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, a fossilized tail vertebra collected during a British........