Travelling from Sydney up to Brisbane, through the lowlands, across the wetlands, crossing rivers, seeing tree ferns – I can’t help thinking …

When Polynesians first discovered Aotearoa–New Zealand, much of the South Island — with few exceptions — was forested from the tree line …

This series brings together posts exploring the Jurassic fossil forests at Curio Bay, southermost New Zealand –  from the in-place stumps of …

Lana Del Rey’s ‘Summertime Sadness’ is filling the air of the restaurant in Odesa…. “Done my hair up real big, beauty queen …

The Jurassic fossil forests at Curio Bay appear to have been overwhelmed by water-lain material, not by air-fall volcanic ash. But the …

In a pile of rubble in the destroyed Gymnasium No. 47 in Kharkiv (Харьковская гимназия № 47), Ukraine, I picked up a …

This year I headed down to the Jurassic fossil forests at Curio Bay, in one of the worst stretches of spring weather …

In my Fifth Form year at Dunstan High School, Alexandra, my Biology Teacher was Peter Child. He retired shortly afterwards, and as …

The ‘God’ of trace fossils, Adolf ‘Dolf’ Seilacher, once visited our Geology Department, when I was an undergrad. My Prof, Doug Campbell, …

Thirty years ago (Pole, 1994), I suggested all of New Zealand’s current flora may have arrived over the sea, by long-distance dispersal. …