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
Authors provided, CC BY-NDOne 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...