When were conditions first right for preserving animal fossils?
Analysis of Burgess Shale-like rocks reveal certain types of clay increase chances of soft-bodied fossil preservation
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This Jellyfish Swam The Earth’s Water Bodies Half A Billion Years Ago
Free-swimming predatory jellyfish discovered from fossil records extracted from the Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rockies.
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Three-eyed Cambrian fossils shed new light on arthropod head evolution
The Burgess Shale is located in British Columbia and is a site of marine fossils that are 506 million years old. It is celebrated for its “weird wonders,” containing a treasure trove of astonishingly well-preserved fossils.
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