First dinosaur bone from Antarctica found in a drawer

According to BBC News, researchers have identified the first dinosaur bone ever found in Antarctica — a piece of a Titanosaur's tail that's been sitting in a museum drawer since nineteen eighty-five. Titanosaurs were among the largest land animals ever to walk the Earth. The discovery highlights how some of paleontology's greatest finds can hide in institutional storage for decades.

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