Australia is rather isolated today, but around 120 million years ago, the island straddled the polar circle and formed a giant landmass with Antarctica. At that time, dinosaurs lived on this landmass — and thanks to a new study, we now know what their habitat looked like.
New illustrations show that "polar dinosaurs" roamed cool-temperate forests crisscrossed by rivers and carpeted with large ferns. These dinosaurs included small ornithopods — herbivorous dinosaurs with beaks and cheeks full of teeth — and small theropods, which were mostly carnivorous dinosaurs that walked on two legs and often had feathers, one of the study's authors wrote in The Conversation.
