TWO peculiar dinosaurs new to science have been unearthed in Antarctica. Palaeontologists have discovered the largest dinosaur yet found on the continent, a 2-metre-tall, 9-metre-long plant-eating sauropod. Yet the beast is actually quite small compared with its giant relatives found elsewhere, which are more than 30 metres long. Also unearthed is a predatory dinosaur that appears to be a bizarre evolutionary throwback.
William Hammer of Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, and his team discovered the long-necked sauropod on the slopes of Mount Kirkpatrick, a 3900-metre mountain a few hundred kilometres from the South Pole. It lived around 190 million…
