Joggins, by all accounts should be the home of the most evolved life forms on earth.
Why? Well, it was here at Joggins that Sir William Dawson discovered the first true reptile, Hylonomus lyelli, ancestor and great great great great grandfather of all dinosaurs that would rule the earth 100 million years later.
This tiny reptile serves as the reference point where animals finally broke free of the water to live on land. This evolutionary milestone recorded at Joggins remains pivotal to understanding the origins of all vertebrate life on land, including our own species.
2009 holds a number of anniversaries, pertinent to us here at Joggins, not least the 200th birthday of Carles Darwin, father of evolution but also the 150th anniversary of the discovery of Hylonomus and the publishing of Darwin's on the Origin of the Species.
So, like all London buses, there are no celebrations for a while and then three come along at once!
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