Some features of the bones of the Naze theropod and others from the peninsula hint that these dinosaurs were relatively primitive for their time. Some believe the Cretaceous dinosaurs of Antarctica represent a kind of relict fauna, consisting of groups more commonly associated with earlier times elsewhere on earth. One theory to explain this is that the newly successful flowering plants – the angiosperms – were slower to colonise Antarctica than other continents, perhaps because it was cloaked in total darkness for so many months each year. In the Late Cretaceous, Antarctica was still
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