What kinds of fossils have been found in Antarctica?
Antarctica is an icy continent that is now at the south pole of the Earth. It was not always located there and was not always so cold and desolate. Continental drift has moved this continent (and the others) around the globe. The Antarctic was at the Earth’s equator during the Cambrian period, roughly 500 million years ago. As the continents drifted atop the more liquid interior layers of the Earth, the Antarctic drifted south during the time of the dinosaurs (the Mesozoic Era) when it was attached to Australia. During that time, it had no glaciers, and housed many animals, including some dinosaurs. Over the millennia, Antarctica drifted farther south, separated completely from Australia, and is now located at the South Pole of the Earth. FOSSILS FOUND IN ANTARCTICA (CLICK LINK) Names followed by an asterisk (*) are not dinos, but other interesting fossils Underlined names are links to information sheets. Names in quotation marks are unofficial.
