The Burgess Shale provides us with a rare glimpse into the softer side of paleontology. Most fossils are preserved hard parts – bones, teeth and shells – but one of the most famous fossil locales in ...

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 ...

A new study led by scientists at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), after analyzing pristine fossil samples from the Burgess Shale in British Columbia, concluded that O. alata was likely one of the ...

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.

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 ...

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.” ...

A team of paleontologists recently discovered that an ancient seascape known for its diverse assemblage of exceptionally preserved fossils ... Shale and its more studied counterpart, the Burgess ...

Who's looking after Alberta's fossils? One thing I’ve added to my to-do list this summer is visit the Burgess Shale site in British Columbia’s Yoho National Park. The historical treasure is in ...

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 ...