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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

500-million year old jellyfish fossil discovered Burgess Shale after century-long search After a century-long search, paleontologists say they discovered an ancient jellyfish whose body resembles ...

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!

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." The 500-million-year-old Burgess Shale is home to a newly-identified species. Balhuticaris voltae ...

“The Burgess Shale is certainly no stranger of already bizarre-looking creatures, but this new species is certainly one of the oddest,” said study lead researcher Jean-Bernard Caron, ...

New Burgess Shale fossil sheds light on the evolution of size. Burgess Shale fossils are renowned not only for their age, but for their preservation. Soft body parts such as eyes are often visible.