![Paleontology Technician holds a tail bone of a titanosaurid, NZ.](http://static.sciencelearn.org.nz/images/images/000/003/085/full/tail_bone_of_a_titanosaurid_full_size_portrait._GNSjpg.jpg?1674169784)
GNS Science Paleontology Technician Marianna Terezow holds a tail bone of a titanosaurid. The fossil, found in northern Hawke's Bay, belonged to a giant plant-eating sauropod that roamed New Zealand 80 million years ago. It is the first evidence that titanosaurids once lived in New Zealand.