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

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 ...

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

The team examined 36 specimens, at the Smithsonian Institution and the Royal Ontario Museum, from the Cambrian Period of the Burgess Shale of Canada. They photographed the specimens, both wet and ...

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