Antarctic Dinosaurs

One of the first fossils from Antarctica!

Discovered by Frank W. Stokes in 1902

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Typical gear used by U.S. Antarctic Program participants

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Exploring Antartica.

It feels like you're entering a tented shelter as you transition from one room to the next.

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Antarctic Lystrosaurs fossil

Early Triassic, about 250 million years ago.

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Antarctosuchus Polyodon

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Cryolophosaurus ellioti

All this from a femur discovered on Mt. Kirkpatrick, Antarctica

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Cryolophosuarus ellioti, early Jurassic

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Detail of the furry feathers on the Cryolophosaurus

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Sauropodomorph A

Early Jurassic, about 190 million years ago

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Taniwhasaurus antarcticus

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