In 1934, when ten-year old Peggy Rubidge asked her father “Daddy, what are fossils?”, Sidney Rubidge who himself had been educated by his own father on the existence of fossils dating back thousands of years, could not have imagined that in responding to his daughter’s curious mind he would make one of the most prolific
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/ Articles / By The Fossil Centre Few things related to science capture the imagination of people around the world more than the magic of worlds gone by. This includes the origins of life, the world of dinosaurs, mass extinctions, meteorite impacts and the evolution of our own species. Understanding the evolution of life is central to the
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Articles/ By The Fossil Centre For many South Africans, time spent in the Karoo is fleeting whilst travelling between major centres. What many do not know is that the rocks of the Karoo basin provide the most complete documentation of the evolutionary development of early mammals in the world. Professor Bruce Rubidge was born with
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