This animation created for Evolution: "Great Transformations" depicts creatures whose fossils were found at the Burgess Shale ... flowering is termed the "Cambrian explosion," taking the name ...

The Burgess Shale is Mecca for paleontologists ... The Burgess fossils tell nothing less than the story of the Cambrian explosion—evolution's Big Bang—when relatively simple organisms rapidly ...

Have you ever wondered what the world looked like millions of years ago? Imagine walking in a place where every rock could ...

The discovery of the Burgess Shale fossils ... This was the full flowering of the “Cambrian explosion,” the sudden appearance of a vast new panoply of life-forms—creeping, burrowing and ...

For over a century, the Cambrian arthropod Helmetia expansa remained a mystery. Discovered by paleontologist Charles Doolittle Walcott in 1918, it was initially classified as a crustacean. Despite ...

The Cambrian Explosion saw an incredible diversity ... Fossils found in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia show traces of a notochord (a rodlike primitive backbone), a significant step in ...

Focused on Cambrian fossils, the study reanimates a species long trapped in the pages of forgotten paleontology.

The Burgess Shale was once part of the seafloor during ... During a period called the Cambrian Explosion, which took place about 570 million years to 530 million years ago, the ocean was filled ...

The fossils of the Burgess Shale offer a glimpse at the incredible ... It was the time of the Cambrian Explosion, an eruption of life when Earth’s very first animals began appearing in the ...

Professor Brian Cox explores the origins of life on earth with a visit to the Burgess Shale ... here record an explosion of life around 540 million years ago, during the Cambrian period, known ...

This animation created for Evolution: "Great Transformations" depicts creatures whose fossils were found at the Burgess Shale ... flowering is termed the "Cambrian explosion," taking the name ...

Researchers formally describe Helmetia expansa, offering new insights into its anatomy, behavior and evolutionary relationships.