Pop-up shop - Plesiosaur & The Lee fossil collection

<p>Geopark Sasha – Pop-up shop</p> <p><strong>Radio announcer: </strong>Time to talk Geopark once again joined by the Geoeducator Sasha Morriss. Sasha, what are we talking about this week?</p> <p><strong>geoeducator: </strong>Yeah, hi. Today we're gonna be talking about our pop-up shop. So it's in number 27 Thames Street in Oamaru. We just opened last Monday. So we're going to be open Monday through Friday, 12:30 through to 4:30.</p> <p><strong>Radio announcer: </strong>Okay. So what can people see in the pop-up shop.</p> <p><strong>geoeducator: </strong>Right, so first of all, when you approach the shop, you'll notice that it's all been painted in the Waitaki Whitestone colors. And there is a little blue pinguin painted in the entrance that you can have a look at and you just get an idea of the, you know, the size if you've not seen one in person. And next to it as a giant penguin that has been found up near Duntroon. And there's also a species of it found up at the back of Waimate as well. So people can have a go at measuring themselves and just seeing, you know, how they measure up next to a long extinct penguin. So these guys stood about 1.3 meters high and I think they're up to about 80 kg I think it was - up around there. So though they were pretty good size.</p> <p><strong>Radio announcer: </strong>But we don't have any as large as that at the moment.</p> <p><strong>geoeducator: </strong>No, that's right. They've all long gone. So you'll come into the shop and you'll see right down the left hand wall, a massive plesiosaur. So some of you may be aware that a plesiosaur was recovered a number of years ago down near Shag Point from the siltstones down there. You can go and see that at the Otago Museum it's around about seven meters long, really impressive. The most complete plesiosaur record actually in New Zealand. And the plesiosaur actually died out along with a lot of animals and plants, including famous dinosaurs round about 65 million years ago - there was a mass extinction, and the plesiosaur was among