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Hannah Osborne

Deadly cyclone unearths fossils of giant marine creatures that lived 80 million years ago

two boulders in a stream with vertebrate fossils

A cyclone that battered New Zealand has uncovered the fossils of what appear to be enormous marine reptiles that lived 80 million years ago. 

The prehistoric remains were discovered at the Maungataniwha Native Forest after February's Cyclone Gabrielle hit the country's North Island, supercharging mountainous waterways that dislodged nearby rocks and boulders.

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