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 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 ...

Over a century ago, evidence of an ancient arthropod shaped like a taco was discovered in the Burgess Shale, a fossil-bearing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Crinoids have graced the oceans for more than 500 million years. Among the most attractive fossils, crinoids had a key role in the ecology of marine communities through much of the fossil record, and ...

North Dakota's fossil fuel industry has grown rapidly since the onset of the shale boom and extraction is now 4 percent of state employment. West Virginia, with a strong coal industry, benefits ...

The Museum's fossil primate collection contains around 1,000 original specimens and casts, representing 96 of the approximately 500 recognised species of fossil primate. Access to the fossil primate ...

Point Bar Features Larger fragments of limestone and weathered shale are common, as are individual fossils weathered out of their enclosing rocks. Cut Bank Features A close-up view of the cut bank ...

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 ...

The more famous Burgess Shale in Canada is younger, at about 508 million years old. Around 50% of the fossils found in Chengjiang are arthropods, a group that now includes insects, spiders, centipedes ...