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Climate doesn't tell the whole story: why Antarctica froze in a warmer world 34 million years ago

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Why did Antarctica become covered in ice 34 million years ago when the Earth was still about 5°C warmer than today? Part of the answer lies deep within the Earth, according to a new study. By gradually lifting the continent on...

08/07/2026 futura-terre ⚙ Auto-translated

83-Million-Year-Old Fossil Rewrites Timeline of Antarctica’s First Dinosaur Discovery

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A small fossil collected on an Antarctic island more than four decades ago is a tail vertebra of a titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur that roamed Antarctica roughly 83 million years ago, according to a new paper in the journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. The post 83-Million-Year-Old Fossil Rewrites Timeline of Antarctica’s First Dinosaur Discovery appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News.

01/07/2026 sci-news

This bone forgotten in a drawer for 40 years has just revealed the very first dinosaur discovered in Antarctica!

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For almost forty years, it remained forgotten in a drawer in the British Antarctic Survey. This fossil, discovered in Antarctica in 1985, has just been identified as the very first dinosaur fossil ever unearthed on the white continent. A discovery which also sheds light on...

01/07/2026 futura-terre ⚙ Auto-translated

Scientists Formally Describe the First Dinosaur Fossil Found in Antarctica

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Scientists have formally described the first dinosaur fossil found in Antarctica. The remarkable discovery is a single vertebra from a Late Cretaceous titanosaur. Although the fossil was collected more than forty years ago, researchers have only recently confirmed its identity.  The first dinosaur fossil found in Antarctica described in the journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.

29/06/2026 everythingdinosaur

Researchers reveal giant structure hidden beneath Antarctica for 160 million years

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The White Continent was only discovered at the beginning of the 19th century. Men have only been exploring Antarctica for two centuries and its many secrets have not yet been unlocked. But modern means of detection are helping us with this goal, as shown by a recent discovery that has...

10/06/2026 futura-terre ⚙ Auto-translated