Perhaps the most surprising thing about Nothofagus leaf fossils in New Zealand is – not finding them. Nothofagus is another name for the southern …
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New Zealand paleobotanyNew Zealand plant fossils
Interdistributary drifters – a Miocene bay in New Zealand
One of the more evocative Miocene fossils you might pick up near Bannockburn, New Zealand, are she-oak ‘cones’ (see the featured image). …
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Curio Bay - New Zealand's Jurassic Fossil Forest
Podozamites – a multi-veined conifer in New Zealand’s Jurassic
Most conifer leaves have just one vein, whether they be the needles of pines, or the much broader leaves of some tropical …
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New Zealand paleobotanyNew Zealand plant fossils
Blue Lake, St Bathans – the most biodiverse Miocene fossil plant locality
The biodiversity of Blue Lake, at St Bathans, New Zealand, is precisely zero. It is an artificial lake partly filling a hole …
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Pea pod fossils in New Zealand were first found by Aline Holden, a pioneer of New Zealand plant fossil research. She found …
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New Zealand paleobotanyNew Zealand plant fossils
Hoop Pine fossils – dry rainforest in New Zealand’s Miocene
In a little patch of shale, continually flaking onto the road near Bannockburn (central South Island, New Zealand), there are the unmistakable fossils …
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Are Australian lives and property being burnt as a result of something that happened tends of thousands of years ago? In 1994 …
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Not really one of the cheapest – by local standards, but hear me out….. This place is called Jinfushan, it’s an all …
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Curio Bay - New Zealand's Jurassic Fossil Forest
New Zealand: The Jurassic fossil forest at Curio Bay
If you make your way down to almost the bottom of New Zealand’s South Island, you can walk among the stumps of …
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I was sitting in a ger in Mongolia when I put up my hand to go to Indonesia. My ulterior motive was …