500 million-year-old 'astonishing' fossils of 3-eyed predator found
A 'treasure trove' of fossils has been uncovered from the Burgess Shale, turning up numerous well-preserved Stanleycaris hirpex.
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A 'treasure trove' of fossils has been uncovered from the Burgess Shale, turning up numerous well-preserved Stanleycaris hirpex.
Perched at over 1,500 meters above sea level, it is difficult to imagine a time when the mountainside Walcott Quarry in Canada – the first excavation site within the Burgess Shale – was submerged by ocean. And yet, that's why it has become one
Peering back hundreds of millions of years into the past can turn up some astonishing findings – as it has with the discovery of a second species of opabiniid, a soft-bodied arthropod with a segmented exoskeleton that lived on the seafloor during