An unassuming-looking fossil that spent 40 years lying forgotten in a drawer has turned out to be the first dinosaur bone ever found in Antarctica, the BBC reports.
The specimen was unearthed in 1985, but the team that discovered it was not sure what it was – so it was stored away in the geology collection of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) in Cambridge.
Now the fossil has been studied by palaeontologists who have confirmed that it is a tail bone from a type of dinosaur called a Titanosaur – this group contained the largest dinosaurs to ever walk the Earth.
The discovery helps to reveal more about how these beasts lived in a part of the world where the fossil record is sparse.
