A New Zealand Crocodile – Connected 2013 Level 3

On a scorching hot day in 1989, near the small Central Otago town of St Bathans, a group of scientists were digging in the soil. What they would find would change our ideas about the animals that have lived in Aotearoa. This article describes how a 1989 fossil discovery in Central Otago revealed that an ancient, freshwater crocodilian species lived in New Zealand millions of years ago when the climate was much warmer.














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