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.

[@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

[@stephanieyee9784]

This is so cool. I'd love to work on something like this one day.

[@mrmajestyk5555]

Unfortunately still couldn't find any transitional fossil Yet

[@kathyheyne6030]

Did you actually watch this video? These fossils are by definition the remains of transitional animals. They’re air breathing fish.
If you want to see it in reverse, have a look at the skeletons of living whales and dolphins. You can see the body transitioning to tail fluke.

[@curiousuranus810]

They're all transitional.

[@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

[@stevenstart8728]

But didn't it rain for 40 days and nights?