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Dinosaur Fossil: 69-Million-Year-Old Bone Found in Antarctica After 40 Years in a Drawer

When you think of Antarctica, you picture endless ice and penguins, right? But what if dinosaurs once roamed there? It sounds like a movie plot, but it's true. A team of Argentinian scientists has confirmed that a bone, found 40 years ago on the Antarctic Peninsula's Vega Island, actually belongs to a hadrosaur dinosaur. The year was 1986. Argentinian scientist Eduardo Olivero was on a dig on Vega Island in Antarctica. Suddenly, he found a strange piece of bone in a layer of rock. It looked like part of a large animal's foot. Back then, technology wasn't so advanced,... [2800 chars]

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