Did dinosaurs live in the polar regions?
They sure did. ‘ American scientists have found dinosaur bones on a windswept mountain near the South Pole, a discovery experts said proved beyond question that the celebrated prehistoric creatures were a global phenomenon. The fragments of skull, lower jaw and other bones also encouraged paleontologists to believe that Antarctica should be a storehouse of fossil treasures preserved in deep-freeze from the time when the continent enjoyed a more temperate climate, was linked to other continents and so was inhabited by a wide variety of animals with kinships worldwide. The discovery, only the second of dinosaur bones in Antarctica, was announced yesterday by the National Science Foundation, which supported the research. “This is going to solidify our ideas about dinosaur distribution on all the continents,” one of the scientists, Dr. William Hammer, said in a telephone interview. “We should get some interesting insights into dinosaur migration patterns and the Antarctic climate back then
