The New Zealand Fossil Record Files

Preserving biodiversity is one of the key challenges of our time, so it's good to know that New Zealand has a unique global advantage. We are the only country in the world with a complete 100% fossil record. This unrivalled database of New Zealand taxonomy and that of its surrounding area (including Antarctica), started out as a paper based archive in the 1940s. Professor of Geology, James Crampton, says the Fossil Record Files are essentially a whakapapa of our biological history, allowing us to ask and answer questions about our flora and fauna that no else on the planet can do.