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British Antarctic Survey confirms Antarctica's first dinosaur fossil, 40 years on
The British Antarctic Survey confirmed a bone collected 40 years ago as Antarctica's first dinosaur fossil, identified as a tail vertebra from a titanosaur, a group of long-necked sauropods. The discovery was published in the journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.
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