David McGrath has purchased the farm next to one of Australia's most valuable fossil discoveries and reopened the site to search for the first animals to walk on land.
Thirty years after 4,000 pristine fish fossils dating back 360 million years were discovered in regional NSW, a retired doctor is reopening the dig in the hope of finding the first animals to walk on land.Mr McGrath is a fossil enthusiast who helped out at the original fossil dig at Canowindra in 1993
Originally led by palaeontologist Alex Ritchie in 1993, the site by the side of an unassuming bend in the road just outside of Canowindra became one of Australia's most important fossil digs. "You have to do something in your retirement. This is as good as anything I can think of," Dr McGrath said. An expert in the field believes the site is the perfect age to produce some of the world's rarest fossils.
"Plants had just begun to invade the land and had become extensive forests by the end of the Devonian," Professor Long said.
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