Fossils, fossils fossils!

Marianna has just co-written and published 'The Kiwi Fossil Hunter's Handbook' which shows you how and where to find fossils around New Zealand. I will buy a copy for the Muritai School library.
Part of a New Zealand dinosaur! This one is a moasaur.
Here is a fossil of a prehistoric fish!

On a visit to GNS Science with my Wellington cluster group I was able to learn more about New Zealand fossils from John Simes, the collections manager and Marianna Terezow, a computer technician with a passion for paleontology. Paleontology is the study of fossils, which are usually the hard or bony parts of animals or plants that have been preserved in sand and mud (sediment) that has been turned into sedimentary rock over huge amounts of time (millions of years).