Paleontologist have struck it rich. I don't know if you've heard of the Burgess Shale, but it's legendary as one of the richest find of Csmbrian fossils ever. Now there's a find that may be even richer:
Just one of the cuties they've found:
That's from the gallery -- click through and take a look -- the landscape is as impressive as the specimens.
"Nowhere do we have a better view of exactly what the Cambrian looked like and its relationship to the environment than in the Burgess Shale," [Robert} Gaines told Live Science's Our Amazing Planet.
The new site is also in the Burgess Shale formation, and seems to rival the 1909 original in fossil diversity and preservation, researchers report today (Feb. 11) in the journal Nature Communications. In just two weeks, the research team collected more than 3,000 fossils representing 55 species. Fifteen of these species are new to science. [Gallery: Amazing Cambrian Fossils from Canada's Marble Canyon]
"The rate at which we are finding animals — many of which are new — is astonishing, and there is a high possibility that we'll eventually find more species here than at the original Yoho National Park site, and potentially more than from anywhere else in the world," said Jean-Bernard Caron, lead study author and an invertebrate paleontologist at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.
Just one of the cuties they've found:
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| A new arthropod species discovered at the Marble Canyon outcrop. Credit: Jean-Bernard Caron |
That's from the gallery -- click through and take a look -- the landscape is as impressive as the specimens.
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