The fossils of the Burgess Shale offer a glimpse at the incredible ... Gould considered the fossils of these creatures to be “the world’s most important animal fossils.” ...

There’s still a lot we’ll never know about these animals, but the Burgess Shale opens a window into a period whose creatures could otherwise have been lost to time.—Caroline Delbert One of ...

This animation created for Evolution: "Great Transformations" depicts creatures whose fossils were found at the Burgess Shale. As alien as these creatures seem, they are also surprisingly familiar.

An extinct ribbonlike sea creature about the size of a human ... Wolcott first encountered fossils of Pikaia in the Burgess Shale deposits of British Columbia, dating to 508 million years ago ...

FROM 508 MILLION YEARS AGO TO TODAYPreserved in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia ... why did life suddenly erupt into a profusion of complex creatures—multicellular, big, and astonishing?

There in the Burgess Shale, we could see the cousins of the creatures that gave rise to all animals, including those with backbones like us. These variations on an ancient theme help us understand ...

Professor Brian Cox explores the origins of life on earth with a visit to the Burgess Shale, a very important ... theory that the evolution of creatures with eyes, such as trilobites, triggered ...