Paul Barrett (palaeobiologist)

British paleontologist

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Until recently, it was assumed that the dinosaurs living across southern Africa were largely the same,
At first glance this appears to be an unremarkable fossil, but it holds an important place in the history of Antarctic exploration as the first dinosaur fossil found on the continent,
  • said Paul Barrett, merit researcher at the Natural History Museum, in the statement
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At the time this animal lived, we know Antarctica would have (been) covered in lush temperate forest providing ample food for large herbivores,
There are likely many more dinosaurs to be discovered on the continent. As climate change causes ice to retreat we may indeed find further evidence of this past biodiversity,
Believe it or not, this is the first bit of dinosaur ever discovered on Antarctica. It was overlooked because I think it was misidentified while under harsh field conditions, but it is a sauropod and it’s only the second sauropod bone from the entire continent.”
It shows that an area that we now think is really uninhabitable was once actually very habitable and had this huge cast of characters living on it,

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