I didn’t know they had flip-top beer cans in the Jurassic Period.
New Dinosaur Discovered in Antarctica
By Jeanna Bryner, LiveScience Staff Writer
posted: 11 December 2007 09:41 am ET
A hefty, long-necked dinosaur that lumbered across the Antarctic before meeting its demise 190 million years ago has been identified and named, more than a decade after intrepid paleontologists sawed and chiseled the remains of the primitive plant-eater from its icy grave.
A team led by William Hammer of Augustana College had unearthed the dino fossils in the early 1990s. They found a partial foot, leg and ankle bones on Mt. Kirkpatrick near the Beardmore Glacier in Antarctica at an elevation of more than 13,000 feet (nearly 4,000 meters). It wasn’t until recently, though, that researchers examined the fossils.
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An artist’s reconstruction shows the new dino, Glacialisaurus hammeri, in its Antarctic environment during the early Jurassic, with several pterosaurs in the background and a small mammal-like reptile. Credit: William Stout
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