‘We can start to see how they were differentiating in the Early and Middle Jurassic and can address how Antarctica started to become this really unique place, climatically, geographically and biologically.’ Antarctic dinosaurs may have been different in ways that scientists don’t yet understand. For example, some Australian dinosaurs from far southerly latitudes appear to have had large eyes and optic nerves – such as the small ornithopod Leaellynasaura – useful in a nocturnal habitat. Did some of them hibernate? Studies of growth lines in fossil bones from southern Australia so far seem to
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