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Words by Meagan Dillon. Images by Che Chorley.

Set in stone

An imprint of a fossil at the Nilpena Ediacara National Park. (ABC News: Che Chorley)

Etched into rock at a dusty cattle station in outback South Australia is the richest collection of Ediacaran fossils in the world. The half-a-billion-year-old creatures, more alien than any animal seen today, may never have been unearthed if not for this fourth-generation stockman.

For almost 40 years, South Australian cattle farmer Ross Fargher has been the guardian of buried treasure, his extraordinary find exposing hidden secrets to life on Earth.

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