For over half a billion years, evolution has sculpted the nervous systems of bilaterian animals, equipping them with remarkable capabilities to process information, coordinate movements, and respond ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Reservations for the Burgess Shale Fossil hikes in Yoho & Kootenay National Parks are now open! The Burgess Shale guided hikes include three exciting route options that range from 8km to 24km. Plus, ...

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 ...

Emu Bay Shale fossils are associated with the Cambrian ... The Emu Bay Shale and its more studied counterpart, the Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, are Cambrian Lagerstätten ...

FROM 508 MILLION YEARS AGO TO TODAYPreserved in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia ... SPECIMEN 41145; All fossils photographed at the Royal Ontario Museum. The striking similarity between ...

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.” ...

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 ...