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

High in Canada’s Rocky Mountains, the animals of an ancient ecosystem can be seen battling for life. The fossils of the Burgess Shale offer a glimpse at the incredible diversity of early life on ...

"Most of the phyla we know today we can see already in the Cambrian and the animals of the Burgess Shale," said Caron. But the fossils still look very strange. "They certainly show evidence of ...

they realized that the Burgess Shale contained not just unique species, but entire phyla (the broadest classification of animals) new to science. The first European to see a kangaroo could not ...

This animation created for Evolution: "Great Transformations" depicts creatures whose fossils were found at the Burgess Shale ... specialized functions. All animal evolution for the last half ...

These animals hunted along the seabed ... Fossils found in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia show traces of a notochord (a rodlike primitive backbone), a significant step in the evolution ...

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 ...

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 ...

The team examined 36 specimens, at the Smithsonian Institution and the Royal Ontario Museum, from the Cambrian Period of the Burgess Shale of Canada ... suggesting the animal exited from the ...

This animation created for Evolution: "Great Transformations" depicts creatures whose fossils were found at the Burgess Shale ... specialized functions. All animal evolution for the last half ...