New Zealand's Open-Access Fossil Database

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Meet FRED: The world's 1st-ever, nearly complete fossil database

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New Zealand is the only country in the world that has an essentially complete, open-access database of its fossil record.

The Fossil Record Electronic Database — dubbed FRED — began in 1946 as a filing cabinet stuffed with paper forms at the New Zealand Geological Survey .

It now contains more than 100,000 location entries, mainly from New Zealand .

"It allows us to interrogate what we know of New Zealand's fossil history in a way that no one else can." Kate Evans is a writer and storyteller. She love sscience, nature, culture, food, and weird animal facts. She's a regular contributor to New Zealand Geographic Magazine and has written and reported for international media, including the New York Times , Washington Post , Scientific American , National Geographic News , the Guardian , BBC Future , Undark , and EOS ..