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 ...

In a surprising twist, a tweet on July 11, announcing an upcoming paper about a new Burgess Shale creature, received nearly 8,000 likes and over 2,000 retweets. The gigantic bivalved arthropod ...

Paleontologists at the Manitoba Museum and Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) have discovered a remarkable new 506-million-year-old predator from the Burgess Shale of Canada. The results are announced in ...

The Burgess Shale was once part of the seafloor during the […] advertisement. Chip Chick. This Marine Creature Shaped Like A Taco Is Now Extinct, But It Had 30 Pairs Of Legs Covered In Spines.

Burgess Shale fossils are exceptional, as they preserve structures, animals and ecosystems that under normal conditions would have decayed and completely disappeared from the fossil record.

The Burgess Shale is Mecca for paleontologists. Charles Doolittle Walcott, the fourth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, discovered this rich fossil bed a century ago, in the summer of 1909 ...

How the Burgess Shale Changed Our View of Evolution The famed fossils are a link to some of the first complex creatures on Earth. Jerry Adler. November 2013. Get our newsletter!

Palaeontologists have discovered a remarkable new 506-million-year-old predator from the Burgess Shale of Canada. Mosura fentoni was about the size of your index finger and had three eyes, spiny ...