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 …

Korean Leek Cake – yum! Never heard of it before, but it tastes as good as it looks (see featured image). This …

I thought I was on to a pretty good Nanjing food deal at the place where I had a chicken curry and …

I once had a student come to me for help looking at sheep crap. It took the mystery out of what this …

The Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology has cats. There’s at least a dozen of them, if not 15 and more. Hard …

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

Perhaps the most surprising thing about Nothofagus leaf fossils in New Zealand is – not finding them. Nothofagus is another name for the southern …

One of the more evocative Miocene fossils you might pick up near Bannockburn, New Zealand, are she-oak ‘cones’ (see the featured image). …

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

The biodiversity of Blue Lake, at St Bathans, New Zealand, is precisely zero. It is an artificial lake partly filling a hole …