A team of paleontologists recently discovered that an ancient seascape known for its diverse assemblage of exceptionally ...

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.

FROM 508 MILLION YEARS AGO TO TODAYPreserved in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia, the worm Canadia spinosa was part of an explosion in biodiversity during the Cambrian period that gave birth ...

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 ...

Here at Pop Mech, we relish in the weird, so we’ve created a paleontological menu based on the plants and animals found at three important fossil sites: British Columbia’s Burgess Shale ...

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 ...

The Burgess Shale formation that encompasses the Walcott Quarry was named a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1980. A few years later, in the best-selling book Wonderful Life, the evolutionary ...

At 517 million years, Chengjiang is the oldest-known Cambrian site preserving soft-body parts. The more famous Burgess Shale in Canada is younger, at about 508 million years old. Around 50% of the ...

Many amazing plants and animals that once existed on this planet are now extinct, but there are remnants of these life forms. Ancient fossils and DNA provide a glimpse into the world as it was for ...

Evolution describes changes in inherited traits of populations through successive generations. To fully understand the science of ecology, one must first be able to grasp evolutionary concepts.

A team of paleontologists recently discovered that an ancient seascape known for its diverse assemblage of exceptionally ...