This small Aussie town may be home to the first animals to walk on land 🐟 | ABC Australia

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.
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.
Mr Ritchie always dreamed of extending the dig to the surrounding area, and now his wish might come true after a retired doctor purchased the neighbouring farm in the hopes of finding the first walking fish.
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[@ColinFreeman-kh9us]

I’m nearly 50, I grew up as a kid around Oberon , Bathurst which are not far from Canowindra. My dad had farms and we would find many fossils when bulldozers or graters would be used to make new roads or repair damaged or worn old ones.
It doesn’t surprise me that so many fish fossils were found here but it is truly amazing.

[@stevenhart9004]

Absolutely incredible. I spend lots of time walking up creeks in the bush & coming home from a walk i found a whole fragmented tree trunk petrified wood about 1.5m long sticking out of a road cut that has eroded away near Brisbane. Amazing what is hidden just below the surface.

[@TURBOTRISTO]

I grew up not far away in borenore, the borenore caves have litterally hundreds and thousands of these fossils just sitting around in piles of rocks anyone can find fossils in the area

[@mrmajestyk5555]

Unfortunately still couldn't find any transitional fossil Yet

[@freelancerconverse4413]

Fish everywhere after the great floods that covered the earth for 40 days and 40 nights.

[@anaryl]

Oh so I see that you are an adherent to Sumerian and Babylonian flood myths

[@Stafus]

@nom deplumeone 0:50 "in the hopes of finding evidence"
sorry folks but that is not scientific impartiality , that is biased cherry picking that leads to fudged results and false conclusions . scientists should be looking for the truth , NOT looking to confirm what they want to be true !