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Protecting earth’s earliest animals…a new foundation to preserve our Ediacaran Fossils
550 million years ago the Flinders Ranges area was a shallow tropical sea inhabited by earth’s first animals – large, complex marine organisms that are now referred to globally as the Ediacara biota in honour of the significance of the rocks and fossils of this area...
read moreProtection for Ediacaran fossil site near the Flinders Ranges
The Science Show - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) During the 55.6 million years of the Cambrian Period, from the end of the Ediacaran Period, 541 million years ago to 485.4 million years ago, there was an explosion of life forms appearing on...
read moreOut & About: A strong foundation
Guests gathered in the historic Old Chamber at Parliament House to launch the Ediacara Foundation, established to conserve the Flinders Ranges' Ediacara fossil record. See the gallery at SA Life
read moreNew foundation fostering conservation in the Flinders Ranges
A new foundation in the heart of the Flinders Ranges has been set up to protect and conserve one of the world's most internationally significant fossil sites. Flinders Ranges Ediacara Foundation was officially launched this week at a special event hosted by South...
read moreAustralia enables UCR to dig into Earth’s wild past
Australian officials signed an agreement last night allowing UC Riverside to continue its pioneering research on a government-owned goldmine for unusual fossils. Nilpena Station is a city-sized plot of land in the Australian Outback. It harbors the richest collection...
read moreMedia Release: Adelaide Launch
South Australian Premier, the Hon. Steven Marshall, will host an event on 23 July to formally launch the Flinders Ranges Ediacara Foundation and announce a major fundraising campaign. The Foundation has been established to protect and conserve the world’s single...
read moreThis Australian farmer is saving fossils of some of the planet’s weirdest, most ancient creatures
NILPENA CATTLE STATION IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA — Fly over the cattle station here in a Cessna 172 and you'll see a dry riverbed snaking through brown, mottled earth punctuated by the occasional patch of saltbush. There's no sign of the 200 cattle currently being run on...
read moreMedia release: Historic agreements to protect Ediacara fossils
South Australian Premier Steven Marshall with Environment Minister David Speirs have today signed historic agreements to conserve South Australia’s Ediacaran fossils in the Flinders Ranges. The aim of the conservation agreements is to protect the world’s single...
read moreMedia release: Nilpena purchase a vital first step in protecting South Australia’s Ediacaran legacy
The Flinders Ranges Ediacara Foundation has applauded the Marshall Government’s decision to purchase the Nilpena fossil site and declare it a national park. Foundation Chair Mary Lou Simpson today described it as “a vital first step in protecting one of the world’s...
read moreEdiacara Conservation Park expanded to protect ancient Flinders Ranges fossils
An internationally significant fossil site in the Flinders Ranges, believed to contain the earliest evidence of sexual interaction, is now part of the Ediacara Conservation Park.
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