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  From : BBC News      By : Rebecca Morelle, Science Editor and Alison Francis, Senior Science Journalist   Edited by : Amal Udawatta    Tony Jolliffe/BBC News The fossil was originally found in 1985 on James Ross Island in Antarctica An unassuming-looking fossil that spent 40 years lying forgotten in a drawer has turned out to be the first dinosaur bone ever found in Antarctica. The specimen was unearthed in 1985, but the team that discovered it was not sure what it was - so it was stored away in the geology collection of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) in Cambridge. Now the fossil has been studied by palaeontologists who have confirmed that it is a tail bone from a type of dinosaur called a Titanosaur - this group contained the largest dinosaurs to ever walk the Earth. The discovery helps to reveal more about how these beasts lived in a part of the world where the fossil record is sparse. Tony Jolliffe/BBC News The discovery was recorded in geolog...

     From :- BBC World News    By :-  Dave Gilyeat - South of England   Editted by :-  Amal Udawatta  Getty Images The Dinosaur Isle Museum has its very own Iguanadon skeleton, which was discovered on the Isle of Wight An amateur fossil hunter recently discovered a rare fragment of the world's oldest marine crocodile in Lyme Regis, so what is it about the Jurassic Coast and the Isle of Wight that makes them so rich in prehistoric fossils? In the early Jurassic period ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs ruled the waves in what is modern-day Dorset, amid schools of smaller weird and wonderful sea creatures. Later, in the Cretaceous period, the Isle of Wight was the "acme of dinosaur diversity in the UK", according to palaeontologist Dr David Button, with specimens of almost every shape and size. We know this because of the unique geology of these places, where seas continually erode the cliffs and new and exciting fossils emerge into the light of day....