An amateur palaeontologist found an eight-million-year-old crab fossil and manages to uncover it from the rock it was enclosed in.<br /><br />Morne, from New Zealand, was hunting for fossils when he stumbled upon an "interesting rock which looked like it could have a fossil inside."<br /><br />"I opened it up back at home by working at it with a hammer, I initially thought it was a fossil crayfish," he added.<br /><br />The fossil hunter then intricately chips away at the rock in an 11-hour process so the fossil is visible.<br /><br />"Using my air scribe, I carefully removed the rock from the fossil until it as much of it was exposed as was safe. The fossil was very brittle so I had to use some consolidant to strengthen it. At one point I, I encountered a hollow section of the giant claw which I had to repair with some thick glue and let it cure for 2 days before I could proceed. This is the largest crab claw I have ever found," Morne told Newsflare.<br /><br />This footage was filmed on May 5.
