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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

FROM 508 MILLION YEARS AGO TO TODAYPreserved in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia, the worm Canadia spinosa was part of an explosion in biodiversity during the Cambrian period that gave birth ...

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 ...

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 ...

The more famous Burgess Shale in Canada is younger ... So even just after the main burst of the Cambrian explosion, arthropods like F. protensa already had a complex visual system. Anomalocaris is ...

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

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 ...