Curio Bay – New Zealand’s Jurassic Fossil Forest

How do you figure out how much carbon dioxide was in the atmosphere millions of years ago? In the Jurassic, the fossil …

In the Jurassic you could have walked from what is now the fossil forest at Curio Bay in southernmost New Zealand (see …

The Jurassic fossil forest of Curio Bay today lies almost at the southern tip of New Zealand’s South Island. In the Jurassic, …

As you pull up in the car park above the fossil forest at Curio Bay (Pole 1999, 2001, 2004, 2009), there is …

At Curio Bay near the southernmost point of New Zealand’’s South Island, you can walk around the remains of a Jurassic fossil …

Back in the late 1980s I had the pleasure of meeting the English scientist David Bellamy. Bellamy was famous at the time as …

In the Jurassic, New Zealand had ‘horsetails’ (Latin: Equisetum) – an odd-looking plant , a bit like a long brush with whorls of …

Most conifer leaves have just one vein, whether they be the needles of pines, or the much broader leaves of some tropical …

If you make your way down to almost the bottom of New Zealand’s South Island, you can walk among the stumps of …

A few years ago I used to teach American classes that came to the University of Queensland. One evening my Stanford class …