For over half a billion years, evolution has sculpted the nervous systems of bilaterian animals, equipping them with ...

While analyzing pristine fossil samples pulled from the Burgess Shale, one of the most diverse and well-preserved fossil sites in the world and located in Canada’s British Columbia, scientists ...

In the famous Burgess Shale in Canada, for example, scientists have found dozens of bizarre, previously unknown animals. Interpretation of fossils poses another set of challenges, and their age ...

This animation created for Evolution: "Great Transformations" depicts creatures whose fossils were found at the Burgess Shale. As alien as these creatures seem, they are also surprisingly familiar.

The fossils of the Burgess Shale offer a glimpse at the incredible ... about 40 kilometres southeast of Walcott’s original site. There, they uncover incredible new discoveries.

FROM 508 MILLION YEARS AGO TO TODAYPreserved in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia ... SPECIMEN 41145; All fossils photographed at the Royal Ontario Museum. The striking similarity between ...

Professor Brian Cox explores the origins of life on earth with a visit to the Burgess Shale, a very important fossil field in Yoho National Park in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. The fossils here ...