
Conservation heavyweights lock in protection for SA fossil site
A $1 billion nature fund has been used to buy a vast tract of outback South Australia containing the oldest animal fossils on Earth.
A $1 billion nature fund has been used to buy a vast tract of outback South Australia containing the oldest animal fossils on Earth.
The entire state of South Australia is effectively the “trace fossil” of an earlier continent, or even an earlier planet, writes archaeologist Alice Gorman.
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