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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Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate
Horsetail Marshes of the New Zealand Jurassic
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleIn the Jurassic, New Zealand had ‘horsetails’ (Latin: Equisetum) – an odd-looking plant , a bit like a long brush with whorls of …
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Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate
Miocene Nothofagus in New Zealand’s Manuherikia Group
by Mike Poleby Mike PolePerhaps 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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Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate
Interdistributary drifters – a Miocene bay in New Zealand
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleOne 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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Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate
Podozamites – a multi-veined conifer in New Zealand’s Jurassic
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleMost 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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Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate
Blue Lake, St Bathans – the most biodiverse Miocene fossil plant locality
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleThe 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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Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate
Giant Pea Pod fossils in New Zealand’s Miocene
by Mike Poleby Mike PolePea 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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Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate
Hoop Pine fossils – dry rainforest in New Zealand’s Miocene
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleIn 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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Archaeology, History & Culture
Tim Flannery and Megafaunal Extinction Shuffle-puck
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleAre 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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Autobiography & Travel
Cheap Eats Nanjing 14 – All You Can Eat – and Drink!
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleNot 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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