The rich fossil repository known as the Burgess Shale was first discovered a century ago. Siobhan Roberts The fossil-hunting expedition began with a lung-busting hike, accompanied by an incessant ...

Imagine stumbling upon a hidden vault that preserves whispers from a world over half a billion years ago—a time when life on ...

The discovery of the Burgess Shale fossils, high on a mountainside in the Canadian Rockies, is shrouded in legend. It was late August 1909, and an expedition led by the Smithsonian’s longtime ...

In the famous Burgess Shale in Canada, for example, scientists have found dozens of bizarre, previously unknown animals. Interpretation of fossils poses another set of challenges, and their age ...

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.

The fossils of the Burgess Shale offer a glimpse at the incredible diversity of early life on Earth, frozen in time and locked in stone — you just have to go digging to see it. Working at 2,500 ...

FROM 508 MILLION YEARS AGO TO TODAYPreserved in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia ... SPECIMEN 41145; All fossils photographed at the Royal Ontario Museum. The striking similarity between ...

The Burgess Shale fossil site, well known for its fossil remains of soft-bodied marine animals, is also found there. Description is available under license CC-BY-SA IGO 3.0 Les parcs nationaux ...