There is a Maori legend than when one of their ancestral canoes (the Te Arawa) approached New Zealand after traveling from its …
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The green tea and red bean ice-cream (see featured image) served by Bellagio’s became an absolute favourite of mine whenever I was passing …
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Korean Leek Cake – yum! Never heard of it before, but it tastes as good as it looks (see featured image). This …
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I thought I was on to a pretty good Nanjing food deal at the place where I had a chicken curry and …
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I once had a student come to me for help looking at sheep crap. It took the mystery out of what this …
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The Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology has cats. There’s at least a dozen of them, if not 15 and more. Hard …
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In the Jurassic, New Zealand had ‘horsetails’ (Latin: Equisetum) –Â an odd-looking plant , a bit like a long brush with whorls of …
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New Zealand paleobotanyNew Zealand plant fossils
Miocene Nothofagus in New Zealand’s Manuherikia Group
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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