The Ancient Fossils of Burgess Shale in British Columbia
British Columbia’s Burgess Shale is a palaeontologist’s dream, holding layers of fossils from 540 million years ago. The fossils give a glimpse into the very spark of life. The soft-bodied creatures with no vision wiggled and squirmed in the Pre-Cambrian mud. But their secluded world was transforming, bursting with new life forms over a few […]