30 years of dinosaur fossil discovery by Hawke’s Bay’s Amateur Palaeontologists
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Jul1
What? Dinosaurs lived in New Zealand?
Yes…
Most of the info here comes from discoveries in New Zealand’s premier fossil site in the North of Hawke’s Bay
A rock full of marine reptile bones.
Jul1
HUNTING FOR DINOSAURS – By Trevor Crabtree
Around about 70 million years ago, give or take a year or two in the late cretaceous was a land we know as Gondwana. Gondwana had a mild temperate climate such as we have here in New Zealand today. Like here today, verdant forests covered the country with bush and scrub the same as now. i.e. Rimu Totara Matai Manuka ect.
The main difference was no grass. Instead plains were covered in fern such as Pigs ear, Bracken and many others. In winter snow fell in the high country with the odd falls lower down.
The population of this benign land situated where Antarctica now takes pride of place had no need to worry about long dark winters. The south pole was not where it is now as we shall see further on. They only had to worry about enough to eat and avoid being the eaten. For this was the era of the Dinosaurs on the land and huge marine reptiles in the oceans filled with fish and other delicacies. Continue with the rest of this entry…
Jul1
Joan Wiffen, one of NZ’s original dinosaur fossil hunters has died at age 87 in Hastings hospital.
More info at http://www.stuff.co.nz/science/2556923/Joan-Wiffen-dies-at-87
Nov11
It is with great sadness that I post this message.
Trevor Crabtree passed away tonight ( Sunday November 11 2007 ) at about 8.15pm in hospital after a short illness.
His knowledge and inspiration in the collection and cataloging of fossil discoveries in New Zealand, and his endless stories of bush adventures will be sadly missed by us all.
Our thoughts and condolences are with the family at this time.
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