An amateur palaeontologist found an eight-million-year-old crab claw 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 the fossil, then intricately chipped away at the rock until the fossil became visible.<br /><br />"I found this small crab recently, it was badly damaged but I thought I could still prep the claw and have a closer look at it. The crab species is a Metacarcinus Novaezelandiae which is also known as a Pie Crust Crab because the edge of its carapace looks like the frilled pastry on a pie crust," Morne told Newsflare.<br /><br />This footage was filmed on May 20.
