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Two Scientists Found a Bone in Antarctica in 1985. It Took 41 Years to Realize What They'd Actually Discovered


A fossil that has been sitting in a drawer for 40 years has turned out to be the first piece of dinosaur ever retrieved from Antarctica.

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