Burgess Shale-type fossil assemblages provide the best evidence of the ‘Cambrian explosion’. Here we report the discovery of an extraordinary new soft-bodied fauna from the Burgess Shale.

A 'Burgess Shale-type' fauna has been found in the Lower and Upper Fezouata formations of Morocco, dating from about 480–472 million years ago in the Early Ordovician.

They are, in the opinion of no less an authority than the paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, “the world’s most important animal fossils”—not Tyrannosaurus rex, not Lucy, but a collection of ...

Burgess Shale fossils were first found in 1909 by Charles D. Walcott, ... University of Kansas researcher Bruce Lieberman described a medusa jellyfish from the 505-million-year-old Marjum Formation.

Yoho National Park’s 505-million-year-old Burgess Shale – home to some of the planet’s earliest animals, including a very primitive human relative – is one of the world’s most important ...

Shale Ale kicks off our 1909-2009 centennial celebrations, which are designed to engage the public in geology, climate change and the history of exploration and discovery in the Rocky Mountains.

The Burgess Shale and similar deposits have provided the basis for a wellspring of scientific research. In a new study published in the journal Geology, researchers at Yale, ...

The new site is also in the Burgess Shale formation, and seems to rival the 1909 original in fossil diversity and preservation, researchers report today (Feb. 11) in the journal Nature Communications.

Scientists have discovered that ancient animals preserved in the famous Burgess Shale fossil deposit were killed by a mud slurry that buried them so deep their whole bodies were petrified.

Burgess Shale fossils were first found in 1909 by Charles D. Walcott, ... University of Kansas researcher Bruce Lieberman described a medusa jellyfish from the 505-million-year-old Marjum Formation.

Researchers described the new species from more than 170 fossil specimens found in the Burgess Shale—a geological formation in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia.

From biofilms to carbon burial, the September GEOLOGY covers science all over the map. Highlights include studies of earthquake frequency along the San Andreas fault; using Iranian and Pakistani river ...