An unassuming lumpy grey fossil that’s been sitting, forgotten in a drawer in Cambridge for the last 40 years has turned out to be something very precious.

It was collected during an expedition to Antarctica in 1985, but after being re-discovered by the collections manager, it’s now been analysed by scientists and has proved to be the first dinosaur bone ever discovered in Antarctica.

Not only that, but it’s from a type of Titanosaur – the family of dinosaurs that were the largest ever to walk the Earth. Its re-discovery gives us a better understanding of how these giants roamed all parts of the Earth millions of years ago.

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Photo credit: Andrew McAfee Carnegie Museum of Natural History

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Former Made in Chelsea star and maternity campaigner Louise Thompson quizzed the UK health secretary on a newly announced maternity commissioner role.

Thompson said she was “infantalised’ during a traumatic labour.

James Murray said he will set out the scope for the role “in the next few weeks” before getting it into legislation “as quickly as possible”.

It comes after a government-commissioned review found the NHS maternity care system in England is “not fit for the now and not fit for the future”.

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