Fossil kept in drawer for 40 years is Antarctica’s first dinosaur bone
In December 1985, geologist Dr Mike Thomson was mapping rock layers on the Antarctic Peninsula when he unearthed a bone. The meticulous note taker pulled out a pencil and jotted down his initial thoughts about the fossil. “Vertebra of large reptile,” he wrote in his field diary, alongside a sketch of the 10-centimetre-wide bone. Mike…