After recovering from the climb, the crew began to explore the most famous Burgess Shale site, a tennis-court- size rock exposure now called Walcott Quarry, where Walcott first found fossils.

The discovery of the Burgess Shale fossils, high on a mountainside in ... that way—Gould argued against it—Walcott knew he had found something special, and returned the following year ...

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.

A new study led by scientists at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), after analyzing pristine fossil samples from the Burgess Shale in British ... in the many mandibles found in species around the ...

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 ...

Unlike trilobites, concilitergans lacked calcified exoskeletons, so their remains only fossilized under exceptional conditions -- like those in the 508-million-year-old Burgess Shale of Canada ...

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 ...