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 ...

By analyzing fossils from sites like the Kuanchuanpu Formation, Chengjiang Biota, and Burgess Shale, the team uncovered impressions of VNCs in species such as Eopriapulites sphinx, Eokinorhynchus ...

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 most well-known of was the Burgess Shale in Canada where archaeologists ... These were particularly in the form of specific rock formations in Canada, China, and Australia, according to ...

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 ...

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.