British Antarctic Survey confirms Antarctica's first dinosaur fossil, 40 years on

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The fossil was collected in December 1985 by geologist Mike Thomson, of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), during an expedition to James Ross Island, on the Antarctic Peninsulahttps://en.mercopress.com/data/cache/noticias/110750/100x80/dino.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0 12px 6px 0; border: 1px solid #333;" width="100" />
A bone collected in Antarctica four decades ago has been identified as the first dinosaur fossil found on the continent, according to a study published in the journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.

It is a tail vertebra from a titanosaur, the group of long-necked sauropods that includes the largest land animals that ever lived.

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