What a find!
But Michael Johnston, from Ranfurly in New Zealand, ended up making a discovery of international significance and put Maniototo — an inland region in Otago — into the record books by finding a series of fossilised footprints millions of years old.
“If any one of those things hadn’t happened, we would never have known they were there, and it makes you wonder how many other moa prints are buried or destroyed, or no one knows they’re there.’’ Mr Fleury acted immediately when Mr Johnston sent photos of the footprints to the museum when he found them in early March. He met Mr Johnston at the site and used an underwater camera, snorkel and mask to examine the markings, which were about one metre under the water.
Michael Johnston was quite relaxed after fossilised moa footprints he discovered in the Kyeburn River were not recovered yesterday. Picture: Stephen JaquieryPlans to extract the footprints yesterday were delayed because of rain yesterday morning that raised the river level, but today the footprints will hopefully be extracted.
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