Brazil's National Museum holds first exhibit since gutted by fire

RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil's historic National Museum on Wednesday displayed fossils discovered in the Antarctic at an off-site venue in its first exhibition since the Rio-based institution was gutted by fire last year.

Among the fossils on display at a sister museum - the Palace of the House of Money - was a bone from a pterodactyl, which the National Museum says is the first evidence of a big reptile species from the Jurassic era being found on the continent at the southern pole.

The bone, and a few other items being shown off at the money museum, had been undergoing scientific studies at the time of the Sept 2 blaze that wiped out most of the National Museum's collection. Eight pieces were recovered from the ashes.