fossils

Corals in Mongolia – is there a better example of dramatic Earth-change?! The Gobi Altai -the mountains flanking the Gobi Desert, are …

With the precious fossils laid out carefully on a sun-hat held in my hands, I took a confident stride from one boulder …

A small claim to fame….Last year I found some little dinosaur footprints in China, and the resulting paper has just been published …

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

The New Zealand road network has some seriously quirky idiosyncrasies – little things we locals take for granted, but can cause some …

A rare plant fossil in the Miocene Manuherikia Group of New Zealand, is Phyllocladus (the Celery Pine). This is a strange conifer which, instead …

I was crouched in a long boat somewhere up a rainforest-swathed river in Kalimatan, Borneo, when I saw it – a ‘living’ …

The white sands and muds surrounding Blue and ‘Grey’ Lakes at St Bathans were laid down in a braided river (Manuherikia Group; …

There is a Maori legend than when one of their ancestral canoes (the Te Arawa) approached New Zealand after traveling from its …

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