For 25 years, a US palaeontologist and her family have been unearthing fossils from the dawn of animal life on a Flinders Ranges pastoral property. Now Nilpena has become a national park — and after 43 years, the grazing family is handing the work over to the South Australian community.

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Future of world-significant fossil site secured with Nilpena cattle station sale

A quarter of a century ago, Ross and Jane Fargher opened the gates of their cattle station, Nilpena,…
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