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why it's worth protecting a spectacular fossil site NZ almost lost to commercial mining interests

  • Written by: John G Conran, Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology, University of Adelaide
why it's worth protecting a spectacular fossil site NZ almost lost to commercial mining interestsAuthors provided, CC BY-ND

One of New Zealand’s most exceptional fossil sites may soon be open to scientists again following a land purchase that saved it from commercial mining.

Foulden Maar is a small, deep lake that formed 23 million years ago in Otago, at the start of the Miocene epoch when New Zealand’s climate was much warmer and...

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