First egg from Antarctica is big and might belong to an extinct sea lizard
Wednesday, June 17, 2020 - 10:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
In 2011, Chilean scientists discovered a mysterious fossil in Antarctica that looked like a deflated football. For nearly a decade, the specimen sat unlabeled and unstudied in the collections of Chile's National Museum of Natural History, with scientists identifying it only by its sci-fi movie-inspired nickname—"The Thing."