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 …

Pea pod fossils in New Zealand were first found by Aline Holden, a pioneer of New Zealand plant fossil research. She found …

In a little patch of shale, continually flaking onto the road near Bannockburn (central South Island, New Zealand), there are the unmistakable fossils …

Are Australian lives and property being burnt as a result of something that happened tends of thousands of years ago? In 1994 …

Not really one of the cheapest – by local standards, but hear me out….. This place is called Jinfushan, it’s an all …

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

I was sitting in a ger in Mongolia when I put up my hand to go to Indonesia. My ulterior motive was …

I’ve seen two cities that look like they were comprehensively destroyed. I don’t mean just ruins,  but places where someone seems to …