Fossils are cool and during an expedition sooner this year in Antarctica , scientists from the University of Queensland scientists collected a whole ton of them , some dating back to the Cretaceous era .
The team of 12 scientistsreported the discovery of fossilson James Ross Island near the Antarctic Peninsula , which included a admixture of leatherneck and dinosaur dodo , dating back at least 71 million long time .
“ We did find a luck of maritime reptile remains , so things like plesiosaurs and mosasaurs , ” said Dr. Steve Salisbury of the University of Queensland , in apress firing . “ The rocks that we were focusing on come from the end of the Age of Dinosaurs , so most of them are between 71 million and 67 million year sometime . ”
“ What we establish or did n’t find is n’t as crucial as the fact that we were actually there , trying to do it , ” Salisbury said . “ If that invigorate other multitude to get into the hunt for fossils , then I ’ll be very excited . ”
[ University of Queensland , Australia , Smithsonian ]
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