Scientists find 245 million-year-old burrows of land vertebrates in Antarctica
Sunday, June 8, 2008 - 19:56
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Christian Sidor of the University of Washington digs for tetrapod fossils in Allan Hills, part of the southern Victoria Land area of Antarctica, during field work in January 2006. For the first time paleontologists have found fossilized burrows of tetrapods – any land vertebrates with four legs or leglike appendages – in Antarctica dating from the Early Triassic epoch, about 245 million years ago.