When you think of central Otago, what do you think? Arid, tussock-covered hills and wilding pines, drenched in sun, rolling into the distance? It was not always thus, according to a fascinating new peer-reviewed study in the Palaeontologia Electronica science journal - the result of self-funded research by Dunedin-born palaeobotanist Mike Pole. Pole paints a distinctly different picture of Aotearoa in antiquity.
