Nature | National Geographic
30 April 2018
A fossil found in South Canterbury is now one of the earliest members of the filter-feeding family of behemoths known as baleen whales. Modern baleen whales include many of the world’s largest cetaceans, such…
Science/Tech | eScience News
18 September 2015
Researchers from the University of Otago have identified three new whale species that once lived in New Zealand.
The “researchers’ discovery and description of the Tokarahia kauaeroa and Tokarahia lophocephalus whales helps to fill in an important gap…
Nature | National Geographic
22 February 2008
On New Zealand’s Chatham Islands researchers have discovered the country’s oldest known bird fossils. The find represents four new seabirds dating back some 65 million years when New Zealand separated from supercontinent, Gondwana. Excavation…
Nature | Iol.co.za
15 June 2001
Cache of moa bones and other fossils found under Canterbury vineyard.