The Geology Museum at Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka—University of Otago smells of old wood and older rocks. The walls are lined with ...

In a significant discovery that reveals New Zealand’s epic biodiversity, researchers identified a 19-million-year-old ...

A 19-million-year-old currawong fossil found in New Zealand sheds light on the ancient birdlife that once thrived in the ...

A fossil discovery of an ancient relative of the Australian magpie which lived in New Zealand some 19 million years ago ...

Magpies may be considered Aussie immigrants, but new research reveals that their relatives lived in Aotearoa New Zealand 19 ...

“Most of the specimens in the St Bathans fauna—more than 6,000 identifiable bird bones—are quite small,” says study leader Trevor Worthy, a paleontologist at Flinders University in Australia.

Researchers have unearthed fossils of massive freshwater crayfish that once scuttled through the lakes of southern New Zealand, 20 million years ago. These crustaceans, which stretched to nearly 10 ...

New Zealand now has only two species and they live in different parts of the country. The fragments are incredibly rare; one haul of 100 kg of fossil pieces recovered from St Bathans yielded just one ...

New Zealand now has only two species and they live in different parts of the country. The fragments are incredibly rare; one haul of 100 kg of fossil pieces recovered from St Bathans yielded just one ...

Historic Lombardy Cottage in St Bathans, Central Otago has been sold after two weeks on the market. Enquiries were invited over $1.5 million.NZ SOTHEBY'S INTERNATIONAL REALTY / Stuff ...

The St Bathans fossil deposit has given us an indispensable window into prehistoric New Zealand, and in many ways it is familiar – the bones of moa, kiwi, parrots, wrens and bats provide a ...