{"id":2334,"date":"2025-07-29T23:39:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T23:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saje.nz\/forest\/?page_id=2334"},"modified":"2025-08-19T21:53:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:53:19","slug":"dinosaurs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/saje.nz\/forest\/dinosaurs\/","title":{"rendered":"DINOSAURS!"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2334\" class=\"elementor elementor-2334\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4094ee7 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"4094ee7\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fdaebc1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"fdaebc1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"215\" height=\"179\" src=\"https:\/\/saje.nz\/forest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Logo-PNG-white.avif\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-2127\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-160919d e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"160919d\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b0219a2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode\" data-id=\"b0219a2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"shortcode.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-shortcode\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/players.brightcove.net\/963482464001\/0xpHIR6IB_default\/index.html?videoId=6330855655112\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" width=\"940\" height=\"560\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fc694ac elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"fc694ac\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\">Our property at\u00a0<a class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forestlifeforce.org.nz\/our-properties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">Maungataniwha<\/span><\/a>\u00a0is of\u00a0<span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"><a class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\" href=\"http:\/\/podcast.radionz.co.nz\/ocw\/ocw-20140403-2146-dinosaur_fossils-048.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">national importance geologically<\/a><\/span>\u00a0as the site where palaeontologist Joan Wiffen first discovered evidence of land-dinosaur fossils in New Zealand. These\u00a0<span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"><a class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nbVLCRkXsyU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fossil remains were extracted<\/a><\/span>\u00a0from cretaceous rock taken from the Mangahouanga Stream, which has the bulk of its catchment within this forest.\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\">It continues to reveal a trove of fossilised riches; in June 2014 walkers stumbled across the fossil of an unusually large ammonite, a squid-like animal that lived in the sea during the time of the dinosaurs. And in March 2015 the fossilised jaw of a mosasaur was found there.<\/p><p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\">If any one place is the epicentre of New Zealand palaeontology, Maungataniwha is probably it.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our property at\u00a0Maungataniwha\u00a0is of\u00a0national importance geologically\u00a0as the site where palaeontologist Joan Wiffen first discovered evidence of land-dinosaur fossils in New Zealand. 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