Kiara+Engwerda+-+Patricia+Vicker-Rich

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Patricia Vickers-Rich was born in the United States on 11 July 1944. ======

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She attended The University of California and Columbia University in New York She excelled in the study of Dromornithidae a family of large, extinct, Australian ground birds. ======

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Patricia Vickers-Rich is a Palaeontologist, she study’s fossils. This form of science is important so that we can learn more about everything that lived before us and learn more about the history of our earth. ======

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In 1976 Patricia moved, with her husband Tom Rich who is also a Palaeontologist, to Australia to continue her research on the Dromornithidae Bird family. She was best known for her work at Dinosaur cove. ======

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She wrote two books with her husband these books are Australia's lost world and Wildlife of Gondwana. ======

Patricia Vickers-Rich won many awards:

 * ======Fulbright Fellowship - 1973 ======
 * ======Eureka prize - 1993 ======
 * ======Michael Daly Award - 1993 ======
 * ======Whitely medal - 1994 ======

In 1994 Patricia Vickers- Rich was in Russia and she was givin a 240 million year old skull of a reptile known as a Pareiasaur by the deputy mayor.

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