Prof. Bruce Rubidge is director of the Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research at the University of the Witwatersrand. Bruce inherited his passion for fossils from his grandfather, Dr. Sidney Rubidge, who farmed at Wellwood, 20km from Nieu Bethesda, where he established the world's largest private fossil collection.

Prof. Rubidge is an authority on mammal-like reptiles of the Karoo Basin.