"Hidden Fossil Treasure Unearthed Beneath Wastewater Pipe"

A 3-million-year-old fossil bed containing 266 species, including the world's oldest known flax snails, great white shark teeth, and an extinct sawshark spine, was discovered under the Mangere Wastewater Treatment Plant in Auckland, New Zealand. The excavation, which yielded over 300,000 fossils, provides valuable insights into the diverse ancient marine life and paleoenvironment of the region. At least ten previously unknown species were identified, and the findings have been published in the New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics.