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Natural History

• Fossils
  Provides both research and consultative services on fossil animals and plants from New Zealand's past. Includes Paleontology links, and the New Zealand Fossil Record File database.
  
  
• FRED : the Fossil Record Electronic Database
  Provides access to the database which records collection details of fossils, with location and geological context. Includes data originally collected in New Zealand Fossil Record File.
  
  
• Geomarine Research
  Geomarine Research specialises in the study of modern foraminifera in the marine environment around New Zealand and the South-west Pacific, and the use of fossil foraminifera in environmental and geological research. Publications available online.
  
  
• Mesozoic marine monsters of Mangahouanga : and elsewhere in New Zealand : New Zealand's sea reptiles from the time of the dinosaurs and their fossil remains
  Web-site outlines New Zealand's Mesozoic marine fossil environments, its fauna and history.
  
  
• Radiocarbon WEB-info
  Information concerning the radiocarbon dating method for both users of the service and for school students, links to other web sites and an extenisve list of publications.
  
  
• Skip's underwater image gallery
  Site of New Zealand based amateur diver, underwater photographer, Ian Skipworth. Images and commentary about underwater natural world; extended coverage of Three Kings and Kermadec Islands, Fiordland and Bunaken Island, Indonesia includes New Zealand dive guide.
  
  
• Southern fossils : paleontology / by R. Ewan Fordyce
  Features articles with illustrations by R. Ewan Fordyce on some of the more distinctive fossils studied by the Dept. of Geology, University of Otago. Organised under general headings: dolphins, mosasaurs, sharks, whales, plesiosaurs, fossil penguins and amphibians. Includes bibliographies.