Read more: These 12 Prehistoric Sea Animals Are Pure Nightmare Fuel Soft tissue rarely gets preserved in the fossil record, which is one reason why locations like the Burgess Shale, which contains ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The fossils of the Burgess Shale offer a glimpse at the incredible diversity of early life on Earth, frozen in time and locked in stone — you just have to go digging to see it. Working at 2,500 ...

The Burgess Shale fossil site, well known for its fossil remains of soft-bodied marine animals, is also found there. Description is available under license CC-BY-SA IGO 3.0 Les parcs nationaux ...

A few years later, in the best-selling book Wonderful Life, the evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould called the Burgess Shale “the most precious and important of all fossil localities.” ...

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 ...