* Astronomy

New research centre 560 million years in the making.

The legend of a South Australian geologist, explorer and environmentalist will live on in a new research centre being launched at the University of Adelaide tomorrow night (Thursday 8 November).
The Sprigg Geobiology Centre, part of the University's Environment Institute, is named in honour of pioneering scientist Reg Sprigg AO (1919-1994).
Reg discovered the first geologic evidence for ancient animals in 560-million-year-old rocks found in the Ediacaran Hills of South Australia's Flinders Ranges. These early fossils provide our primary insight in to how and why the first complex life on Earth evolved and prospered.
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