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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.