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Antarctica's first dinosaur fossil found in drawer after 40 years
Key takeaways
- Mike Thomson was mapping rock layers on the Antarctic Peninsula when he unearthed the bone.
- Dinosaur fossils are extremely rare in Antarctica.
- But a bone found there in 1985 and kept in a drawer for almost 40 years has now been confirmed as the first of the dinosaur fossils to have been discovered there.
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Mike Thomson was mapping rock layers on the Antarctic Peninsula when he unearthed the bone. (Supplied: British Antarctic Survey)
Dinosaur fossils are extremely rare in Antarctica.
But a bone found there in 1985 and kept in a drawer for almost 40 years has now been confirmed as the first of the dinosaur fossils to have been discovered there.
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