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 ...

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 ...

Fossils found in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia show traces of a notochord (a rodlike primitive backbone), a significant step in the evolution of vertebrates. Cambrian sediments found in ...

Chris Driesbach, left, and a volunteer stand over a whale fossil found ... History photo Hoffman believes waves from the storm helped scour some of the sand away from the shale.

At Burgess Shale, paleontologists found creatures with spiny armor, strange appendages, and body shapes unlike anything alive today. These fossils revolutionized our understanding of early animal ...

36 specimens, present at the Smithsonian Institution and the Royal Ontario Museum, from the Cambrian Period of the Burgess Shale of Canada, were examined. (Photo: Getty ... They’re found in nearly ...

like those found in the Burgess Shale in Canada. This site is famous for preserving even soft parts of animals, such as gills, legs, and guts. Dr. Losso and her team studied 36 fossil specimens ...

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