Joan Wiffen information report

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Joan Wiffen

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Introduction
Paragraph 2	Early life	Born in ?? Lived where?? Married to…?? KIds?? What was her job?? First fossil she ever had was given an Ammonite (fossil of an ancient squid) that made her interested in finding fossils.
Paragraph 3	Discovering fossils	First in NZ. 1975. Mangahouanga Stream in Hawke’s Bay. dinosaur tailbone from a theropod.  From six different species. Joan and family and friends.  Fossils were in rocks, used some special tools to split the rocks open, carried it to her car.
Paragraph 4	Changing ideas about fossils	An Australian paleontologist Dr Ralph Molnar confirmed it was a dinosaur bone in 1980.  Other people started looking for fossils and found some - page 24.
Paragraph 5	Later life	Honorary doctorate in 1994.  Died in ?? She is remembered - her fossils are kept safe. Some are at the University of Auckland, some are at National Paleontological collections at GNS Science in Lower hutt. The first one she found is on display at Te Papa.
Conclusion

Joan Wiffen is a famous New Zealand dinosaur hunter.

Joan Wiffen was born on the 4th of Feb 1922. She was married to a man named Pont Wiffen and they two kids. Her famous job was to be a palaeontologist and she was a person who hunts dinosaurs and she studied ancient thing about animals.

In 1975,Joan Wiffen found the first dinosaur fossil in New Zealand,a small piece of a dinosaurs tailbone from a theropod dinosaur,she found it in a rock at Mangahounga stream in Hawke’s Bay. Joan Wiffen got some special tools to crack the rock open and grab the fossil out of the rock. Joan and her family went to find more dinosaur fossils and people started to do the same thing,she found six dinosaur fossils from different species. 

In 1980, an Australian paleontologist named Dr Ralph Molnar confirmed the bone that Joan had found was indeed a dinosaur fossil.  

Joan Wiffen and her family and her friends found six different kinds of dinosaur bones at Mangahounga stream, inland Hawke’s Bay. Other people started looking for fossils. A man named Brendan Hayes found a very small finger bone of a theropod dinosaur at South of Port Waikato (in the cliffs along the coast). Another man named Dr Greg Browne found a dinosaur footprint at Northwest Nelson,even a another man found several dinosaur bones (sauropod and theropod) at Tioriori, Chatham Island.

Joan Wiffen received an honorary doctorate in 1994. She died on the 30th of June 2009,people remember her by reading books about her amazing journey.