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 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 ...

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 ...

Fossils found in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia show traces of a notochord (a rodlike primitive backbone), a significant step in the evolution of vertebrates. Cambrian sediments found in ...

You’ll have plenty of time to explore the rest of the park after this scenic stroll around the lake! The Burgess Shale fossil beds are a unique geological formation estimated to be over 500 million ...

At 517 million years, Chengjiang is the oldest-known Cambrian site preserving soft-body parts. The more famous Burgess Shale in Canada is younger, at about 508 million years old. Around 50% of the ...

The boom in production of oil and natural gas from shale formations became a significant factor after 2008. Greater availability of domestic energy resources benefits the United States by reducing ...

British Columbia The Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rockies is one ... The site is part of the vast Morrison Formation, layers of rock across much of western North America that formed over tens ...

Dan Eberhart is CEO of Canary, LLC. Don’t bet against America’s shale producers. Every oil market analyst should know this by now, but many still can’t resist calling an end to the shale boom.

Chart: The Economist The Marcellus is just one of several such rock formations around America, from the oil-rich Bakken shale in Montana and North Dakota to the Permian basin, endowed with both ...

Richard is the Director of News Content - responsible for more than 800 journalists in the UK and around the world who provide content for BBC News across digital, television and radio. News ...