Leigh Love has found many internationally significant fossils. Photo:
A fossil found in North Canterbury's Waipara is changing what scientists know about the evolution of birds.
Leigh Love and his son found almost the entire 62-million-year-old Zealandian Tropicbird specimen in 2020 and 2021. It's the first one found in the Southern Hemisphere the species wasn't previously known to migrate here at all.
It's not Leigh Love's first internationally significant find - he estimates he's found around a dozen new species, since his passion for palaeontology ignited in 2005.
