The Burgess Shale Formation is a fossiliferous deposit exposed in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, Canada. It is famous for the exceptional preservation of the soft parts of its fossils. At 508 million years (Middle Cambrian) old, it is one of the earliest fossil beds containing soft-part imprints.
The Burgess Shale was discovered by palaeontologistCharles Walcott on 30 August 1909, towards the end of the season's fieldwork. He returned in 1910 with his sons, daughter, and wife, establishing a quarry on the flanks of Fossil Ridge. The significance of soft-bodied preservation, and the range of organisms he recognised as new to science, led him to return to the quarry almost every year until 1924. At that point, aged 74, he had amassed over 65,000 specimens. Describing the fossils was a vast task, pursued by Walcott until his death in 1927. Walcott, led by scientific opinion at the time, attempted to categorise all fossils into living taxa, and as a result, the fossils were regarded as little more than curiosities at the time. It was not until 1962 that a first-hand reinvestigation of the fossils was attempted, by Alberto Simonetta. This led scientists to recognise that Walcott had barely scratched the surface of information available in the Burgess Shale, and also made it clear that the organisms did not fit comfortably into modern groups.
What's the strangest monster that you can think of? Godzilla? Cthulhu? What about the creatures that lived 540 million years ago? Anomalocaris canadensis! Hallucigenia sparsa!! Opabinia regalis!!! All of you favorite fossil oddities from the Burgess Shale
This wonderful video was written, animated, and edited by Alayna Wilson, for her final project in the class "Geoscience Video and Animation"
published: 03 Jun 2020
Burgess Shale
This educational (non-profit) video was produced by Professor Drew Muscente for the Historical Geology course (GEO 130) at Cornell College.
published: 24 Jul 2020
Burgess Shale Interpretive Hike - Yoho National Park
The Burgess Shale is one of the worlds most significant fossil locations. Contained in Yoho National Park, these 500 million year-old fossils provide insight into life in the sea at that time and into the very nature of evolution.
Parks Canada interpreters lead day-long guided interpretive hikes to the two fossil locations in Yoho. Participants are introduced to the natural and cultural history of the area and will experience awe-inspiring views of a a variety of stunning mountain landscapes.
This video provides a snapshot of a hike to the fossil site called Walcott Quarry, showing participants starting their day, learning along the way, taking in magnificent scenery and exciting wildlife sightings and arriving at the most important fossil location in the world. Watch as visitors make thei...
published: 29 Jan 2010
Just how complex were the animals found in the Burgess Shale?
From our series, The Mysteries of the Missing Fossils with Dr. Stephen Meyer. The entire series is available at https://www.jashow.org/resources/the-mystery-of-the-missing-fossils.html
published: 03 Mar 2017
Wonderful Life and the Burgess Shale
The Burgess Shale, high in the Canadian Rockies, is a truly amazing place. A window into the past, a window into our own past. (Stay with me on this, we're going deep.)
0:00 - Introduction
1:05 - Prologue
3:26 - The Burgess Shale
9:30 - The Researchers
20:50 - Contingency and Us
28:47 - Credits
Part of Places Series
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All copyrighted images are protected under Fair Use for reasons of education.
None of the artwork is my own, unless directly stated.
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Super Secret video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-95JUwbnPU
published: 01 Jan 2019
Burgess Shale: Early Life Predators
The new Burgess Shale website launches December 1, 2011 at http://burgess-shale.rom.on.ca (password protected until launch date).
In partnership with Parks Canada, the ROM launches one of the most technologically advanced and accessible virtual museum sites showcasing the Burgess Shale, a UNESCO World Heritage Site of an ancient fossilized marine seabed located high up in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. The ROM's collection is one of the worlds largest and most comprehensive, and our cutting edge research is leading the way in understanding more about this incredible natural treasure and the stories it tells about early life on this planet.
published: 21 Nov 2011
Burgess Shale Expedition
We are proud to report the extraordinary discovery of a new fossil deposit in Kootenay National Park, announced formally in the Feb 11, 2014 issue of Nature Communications.
Read more about the discovery at: http://www.rom.on.ca/en/blog/mighty-burgess-shale-fossil-site-discovered-in-kootenay-national-park
published: 11 Feb 2014
What two mysteries face evolutionary scientists in light of the Burgess Shale fossils?
From our series, The Mysteries of the Missing Fossils with Dr. Stephen Meyer. The entire series is available at https://www.jashow.org/resources/the-mystery-of-the-missing-fossils.html
published: 06 Mar 2017
Why do fossils found in the Burgess Shale pose a problem for scientists?
From our series, The Mysteries of the Missing Fossils with Dr. Stephen Meyer. The entire series is available at https://www.jashow.org/resources/the-mystery-of-the-missing-fossils.html
published: 08 Mar 2017
Massive New Animal Species Discovered in Half-Billion-Year-Old Burgess Shale
What's the strangest monster that you can think of? Godzilla? Cthulhu? What about the creatures that lived 540 million years ago? Anomalocaris canadensis! Hallu...
What's the strangest monster that you can think of? Godzilla? Cthulhu? What about the creatures that lived 540 million years ago? Anomalocaris canadensis! Hallucigenia sparsa!! Opabinia regalis!!! All of you favorite fossil oddities from the Burgess Shale
This wonderful video was written, animated, and edited by Alayna Wilson, for her final project in the class "Geoscience Video and Animation"
What's the strangest monster that you can think of? Godzilla? Cthulhu? What about the creatures that lived 540 million years ago? Anomalocaris canadensis! Hallucigenia sparsa!! Opabinia regalis!!! All of you favorite fossil oddities from the Burgess Shale
This wonderful video was written, animated, and edited by Alayna Wilson, for her final project in the class "Geoscience Video and Animation"
The Burgess Shale is one of the worlds most significant fossil locations. Contained in Yoho National Park, these 500 million year-old fossils provide insight in...
The Burgess Shale is one of the worlds most significant fossil locations. Contained in Yoho National Park, these 500 million year-old fossils provide insight into life in the sea at that time and into the very nature of evolution.
Parks Canada interpreters lead day-long guided interpretive hikes to the two fossil locations in Yoho. Participants are introduced to the natural and cultural history of the area and will experience awe-inspiring views of a a variety of stunning mountain landscapes.
This video provides a snapshot of a hike to the fossil site called Walcott Quarry, showing participants starting their day, learning along the way, taking in magnificent scenery and exciting wildlife sightings and arriving at the most important fossil location in the world. Watch as visitors make their own discoveries as they pick up and examine these half a billion-year old creatures.
Cette vidéo est aussi disponible en français https://youtu.be/FF5v8MZT3kE
The Burgess Shale is one of the worlds most significant fossil locations. Contained in Yoho National Park, these 500 million year-old fossils provide insight into life in the sea at that time and into the very nature of evolution.
Parks Canada interpreters lead day-long guided interpretive hikes to the two fossil locations in Yoho. Participants are introduced to the natural and cultural history of the area and will experience awe-inspiring views of a a variety of stunning mountain landscapes.
This video provides a snapshot of a hike to the fossil site called Walcott Quarry, showing participants starting their day, learning along the way, taking in magnificent scenery and exciting wildlife sightings and arriving at the most important fossil location in the world. Watch as visitors make their own discoveries as they pick up and examine these half a billion-year old creatures.
Cette vidéo est aussi disponible en français https://youtu.be/FF5v8MZT3kE
From our series, The Mysteries of the Missing Fossils with Dr. Stephen Meyer. The entire series is available at https://www.jashow.org/resources/the-mystery-of-...
From our series, The Mysteries of the Missing Fossils with Dr. Stephen Meyer. The entire series is available at https://www.jashow.org/resources/the-mystery-of-the-missing-fossils.html
From our series, The Mysteries of the Missing Fossils with Dr. Stephen Meyer. The entire series is available at https://www.jashow.org/resources/the-mystery-of-the-missing-fossils.html
The Burgess Shale, high in the Canadian Rockies, is a truly amazing place. A window into the past, a window into our own past. (Stay with me on this, we're goin...
The Burgess Shale, high in the Canadian Rockies, is a truly amazing place. A window into the past, a window into our own past. (Stay with me on this, we're going deep.)
0:00 - Introduction
1:05 - Prologue
3:26 - The Burgess Shale
9:30 - The Researchers
20:50 - Contingency and Us
28:47 - Credits
Part of Places Series
_
All copyrighted images are protected under Fair Use for reasons of education.
None of the artwork is my own, unless directly stated.
Thumbnail created using Phylopic.
Super Secret video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-95JUwbnPU
The Burgess Shale, high in the Canadian Rockies, is a truly amazing place. A window into the past, a window into our own past. (Stay with me on this, we're going deep.)
0:00 - Introduction
1:05 - Prologue
3:26 - The Burgess Shale
9:30 - The Researchers
20:50 - Contingency and Us
28:47 - Credits
Part of Places Series
_
All copyrighted images are protected under Fair Use for reasons of education.
None of the artwork is my own, unless directly stated.
Thumbnail created using Phylopic.
Super Secret video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-95JUwbnPU
The new Burgess Shale website launches December 1, 2011 at http://burgess-shale.rom.on.ca (password protected until launch date).
In partnership with Parks C...
The new Burgess Shale website launches December 1, 2011 at http://burgess-shale.rom.on.ca (password protected until launch date).
In partnership with Parks Canada, the ROM launches one of the most technologically advanced and accessible virtual museum sites showcasing the Burgess Shale, a UNESCO World Heritage Site of an ancient fossilized marine seabed located high up in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. The ROM's collection is one of the worlds largest and most comprehensive, and our cutting edge research is leading the way in understanding more about this incredible natural treasure and the stories it tells about early life on this planet.
The new Burgess Shale website launches December 1, 2011 at http://burgess-shale.rom.on.ca (password protected until launch date).
In partnership with Parks Canada, the ROM launches one of the most technologically advanced and accessible virtual museum sites showcasing the Burgess Shale, a UNESCO World Heritage Site of an ancient fossilized marine seabed located high up in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. The ROM's collection is one of the worlds largest and most comprehensive, and our cutting edge research is leading the way in understanding more about this incredible natural treasure and the stories it tells about early life on this planet.
We are proud to report the extraordinary discovery of a new fossil deposit in Kootenay National Park, announced formally in the Feb 11, 2014 issue of Nature Com...
We are proud to report the extraordinary discovery of a new fossil deposit in Kootenay National Park, announced formally in the Feb 11, 2014 issue of Nature Communications.
Read more about the discovery at: http://www.rom.on.ca/en/blog/mighty-burgess-shale-fossil-site-discovered-in-kootenay-national-park
We are proud to report the extraordinary discovery of a new fossil deposit in Kootenay National Park, announced formally in the Feb 11, 2014 issue of Nature Communications.
Read more about the discovery at: http://www.rom.on.ca/en/blog/mighty-burgess-shale-fossil-site-discovered-in-kootenay-national-park
From our series, The Mysteries of the Missing Fossils with Dr. Stephen Meyer. The entire series is available at https://www.jashow.org/resources/the-mystery-of-...
From our series, The Mysteries of the Missing Fossils with Dr. Stephen Meyer. The entire series is available at https://www.jashow.org/resources/the-mystery-of-the-missing-fossils.html
From our series, The Mysteries of the Missing Fossils with Dr. Stephen Meyer. The entire series is available at https://www.jashow.org/resources/the-mystery-of-the-missing-fossils.html
From our series, The Mysteries of the Missing Fossils with Dr. Stephen Meyer. The entire series is available at https://www.jashow.org/resources/the-mystery-of-...
From our series, The Mysteries of the Missing Fossils with Dr. Stephen Meyer. The entire series is available at https://www.jashow.org/resources/the-mystery-of-the-missing-fossils.html
From our series, The Mysteries of the Missing Fossils with Dr. Stephen Meyer. The entire series is available at https://www.jashow.org/resources/the-mystery-of-the-missing-fossils.html
https://scitechdaily.com/absolutely-mind-boggling-massive-new-animal-species-discovered-in-500-million-year-old-burgess-shale/
The video shows a Cambroraster f...
What's the strangest monster that you can think of? Godzilla? Cthulhu? What about the creatures that lived 540 million years ago? Anomalocaris canadensis! Hallucigenia sparsa!! Opabinia regalis!!! All of you favorite fossil oddities from the Burgess Shale
This wonderful video was written, animated, and edited by Alayna Wilson, for her final project in the class "Geoscience Video and Animation"
The Burgess Shale is one of the worlds most significant fossil locations. Contained in Yoho National Park, these 500 million year-old fossils provide insight into life in the sea at that time and into the very nature of evolution.
Parks Canada interpreters lead day-long guided interpretive hikes to the two fossil locations in Yoho. Participants are introduced to the natural and cultural history of the area and will experience awe-inspiring views of a a variety of stunning mountain landscapes.
This video provides a snapshot of a hike to the fossil site called Walcott Quarry, showing participants starting their day, learning along the way, taking in magnificent scenery and exciting wildlife sightings and arriving at the most important fossil location in the world. Watch as visitors make their own discoveries as they pick up and examine these half a billion-year old creatures.
Cette vidéo est aussi disponible en français https://youtu.be/FF5v8MZT3kE
From our series, The Mysteries of the Missing Fossils with Dr. Stephen Meyer. The entire series is available at https://www.jashow.org/resources/the-mystery-of-the-missing-fossils.html
The Burgess Shale, high in the Canadian Rockies, is a truly amazing place. A window into the past, a window into our own past. (Stay with me on this, we're going deep.)
0:00 - Introduction
1:05 - Prologue
3:26 - The Burgess Shale
9:30 - The Researchers
20:50 - Contingency and Us
28:47 - Credits
Part of Places Series
_
All copyrighted images are protected under Fair Use for reasons of education.
None of the artwork is my own, unless directly stated.
Thumbnail created using Phylopic.
Super Secret video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-95JUwbnPU
The new Burgess Shale website launches December 1, 2011 at http://burgess-shale.rom.on.ca (password protected until launch date).
In partnership with Parks Canada, the ROM launches one of the most technologically advanced and accessible virtual museum sites showcasing the Burgess Shale, a UNESCO World Heritage Site of an ancient fossilized marine seabed located high up in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. The ROM's collection is one of the worlds largest and most comprehensive, and our cutting edge research is leading the way in understanding more about this incredible natural treasure and the stories it tells about early life on this planet.
We are proud to report the extraordinary discovery of a new fossil deposit in Kootenay National Park, announced formally in the Feb 11, 2014 issue of Nature Communications.
Read more about the discovery at: http://www.rom.on.ca/en/blog/mighty-burgess-shale-fossil-site-discovered-in-kootenay-national-park
From our series, The Mysteries of the Missing Fossils with Dr. Stephen Meyer. The entire series is available at https://www.jashow.org/resources/the-mystery-of-the-missing-fossils.html
From our series, The Mysteries of the Missing Fossils with Dr. Stephen Meyer. The entire series is available at https://www.jashow.org/resources/the-mystery-of-the-missing-fossils.html
The Burgess Shale Formation is a fossiliferous deposit exposed in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, Canada. It is famous for the exceptional preservation of the soft parts of its fossils. At 508 million years (Middle Cambrian) old, it is one of the earliest fossil beds containing soft-part imprints.
The Burgess Shale was discovered by palaeontologistCharles Walcott on 30 August 1909, towards the end of the season's fieldwork. He returned in 1910 with his sons, daughter, and wife, establishing a quarry on the flanks of Fossil Ridge. The significance of soft-bodied preservation, and the range of organisms he recognised as new to science, led him to return to the quarry almost every year until 1924. At that point, aged 74, he had amassed over 65,000 specimens. Describing the fossils was a vast task, pursued by Walcott until his death in 1927. Walcott, led by scientific opinion at the time, attempted to categorise all fossils into living taxa, and as a result, the fossils were regarded as little more than curiosities at the time. It was not until 1962 that a first-hand reinvestigation of the fossils was attempted, by Alberto Simonetta. This led scientists to recognise that Walcott had barely scratched the surface of information available in the Burgess Shale, and also made it clear that the organisms did not fit comfortably into modern groups.
It's been so long since you've been there And now it's time another day broken And misled tears is something I will never feel again I'm picking up my bits and pieces I will forget about your kisses I never said this would be easy But I'll just have to stay away Make believe I'm only human See the world through burnt out eyes I'm afraid we're just the new old Coming back for one last try It's been so long now since I've felt this way and now I am through it It's been so long now just another day let's just get to it.