The Burgess Shale sits high in the Canadian Rockies, within Yoho National Park, surrounded by peaks that seem to scrape the sky. Discovered in 1909, this remote outcrop is more than just a pile of ...

Burgess Shale fossils of soft-bodied animals from a time when creatures were just beginning to evolve are so well-preserved because an underwater avalanche of fine mud buried them. ...

A recently discovered creature, Mosura fentoni, has stunned paleontologists with its bizarre, otherworldly features. Unveiled ...

The Burgess Shale is a huge deposit of fossils that dates back over 500 million years to the Cambrian Period. Back then, a massive number of animals fell into something like a mudslide and were ...

The Burgess fossils tell nothing less than the story of the Cambrian explosion—evolution's Big Bang—when relatively simple organisms rapidly diversified into the sorts of animals that live today.

The Burgess Shale was first discovered in 1909 by Charles D. Walcott, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. The 508 million-year-old site is a gold mine of well-preserved ...

The Burgess Shale was first discovered in 1909 by Charles D. Walcott, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. The 508 million-year-old site is a gold mine of well-preserved ...

The jellyfish, named a Burgessomedusa phasmiformis, commonly known as a burgess medusa or burgess shale, was extracted from Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rockies, according to SWNS, the British ...

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.

The Burgess Shale was first discovered in 1909 by Charles D. Walcott, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. The 508 million-year-old site is a gold mine of well-preserved ...

The Burgess Shale was first discovered in 1909 by Charles D. Walcott, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. The 508 million-year-old site is a gold mine of well-preserved ...