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Life's Weirdest Experiments: The Burgess Shale
In Yoho National Park lies a 508-million-year-old fossil bed that rewrote evolutionary history. The Burgess Shale preserves the soft tissues of creatures from the Cambrian Explosion, like the five-eyed Opabinia. These fossils reveal a time of wild evolutionary experiments, making it one of the most important paleontological sites on Earth. 🤯 #Canada #BurgessShale #CanadaIsAwesome #Paleontology 🇨🇦
Life's Weirdest Experiments: The Burgess Shale
In Yoho National Park lies a 508-million-year-old fossil bed that rewrote evolutionary history. The Burgess Shale preserves the soft tissues of creatures from the Cambrian Explosion, like the five-eyed Opabinia. These fossils reveal a time of wild evolutionary experiments, making it one of the most important paleontological sites on Earth. 🤯 #Canada #BurgessShale #CanadaIsAwesome #Paleontology 🇨🇦
Life's Weirdest Experiments: The Burgess Shale
In Yoho National Park lies a 508-million-year-old fossil bed that rewrote evolutionary history. The Burgess Shale preserves the soft tissues of creatures from the Cambrian Explosion, like the five-eyed Opabinia. These fossils reveal a time of wild evolutionary experiments, making it one of the most important paleontological sites on Earth. 🤯 #Canada #BurgessShale #CanadaIsAwesome #Paleontology 🇨🇦
Opening Thursday, July2, 2026 in Pioneer square, with my work, The Book of Shadows: Trilobites: Kootenia burgessensis. See details in my blog post
#fossils #BurgessShale #MtStephen #FieldBC #BritishColumbia
https://www.planetart.space/more-fossils-from-the-book-of-shadows-appearing-in-pioneer-square-this-month/
How #science finally solved #hallucigenia’s weirdness after 84 years: https://youtu.be/WY3GqbjjrdY #biology #invertebrate #arthropod #taxonomy #paleontology #palaeontology #cambrian #fossil #BurgessShale
Life's Weirdest Experiments: The Burgess Shale
In Yoho National Park lies a 508-million-year-old fossil bed that rewrote evolutionary history. The Burgess Shale preserves the soft tissues of creatures from the Cambrian Explosion, like the five-eyed Opabinia. These fossils reveal a time of wild evolutionary experiments, making it one of the most important paleontological sites on Earth. 🤯 #Canada #BurgessShale #CanadaIsAwesome #Paleontology 🇨🇦
Listened to a podcast about weird evolutionary paths critters took and it was mostly about #BurgessShale cuties. I should see if there's a set of magnets for those on Etsy or something.
Also, puzzling out what they looked like from the #fossils? Madness. I doff my hat to ya. #science #cambrian
Life's Weirdest Experiments: The Burgess Shale
In Yoho National Park lies a 508-million-year-old fossil bed that rewrote evolutionary history. The Burgess Shale preserves the soft tissues of creatures from the Cambrian Explosion, like the five-eyed Opabinia. These fossils reveal a time of wild evolutionary experiments, making it one of the most important paleontological sites on Earth. 🤯 #Canada #BurgessShale #CanadaIsAwesome #Paleontology 🇨🇦
Another exciting week for palaeo events around Alberta!
Wed., Aug. 6 - Calgary - Dr. Caron's public lecture about the Burgess Shale at Telus Spark!
Sat., Aug. 9 - Warner - Sunset Fossil Site Tour at Devil's Coulee Dinosaur Heritage Museum!
Sat., Aug. 9 - Sun., Aug. 10 - Grande Prairie - Palaeo Palooza with the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum!
#palaeontology #paleontology #fossils #burgessshale #yyc #alberta #warner #grandeprairie
Busy week for palaeontology around Alberta!
Aug 1: Night at the Museum – Devil's Coulee
Aug 2: Walcott Quarry Hike w/ Dr. Caron – Burgess Shale Foundation
Aug 2: Fossil Site Sunset Tour – Devil's Coulee
Aug 6, 11-12: Burgess Shale Lecture – Telus Spark
Details: albertapaleo.org/events
#palaeontology @paleontology #fossils #burgessshale #devilscoulee #ab #alberta
Dr. Caron will be presenting a public talk on the Burgess Shale at Telus Spark Science Centre on August 6, 2025 from 11:00am - 12:00pm. This is his only talk in Calgary during his visit this summer and should be fascinating. More details shortly.
For more information please email [email protected].
#palaeontology #paleontology #fossils #burgessshale #yyc #ab #alberta
Paleontologists discover 506-million-year-old predator https://phys.org/news/2025-05-paleontologists-million-year-predator.html
Early evolvability in arthropod tagmosis exemplified by a new radiodont from the #BurgessShale https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.242122
"Mosura fentoni was about the size of an index finger and had 3 eyes, spiny jointed claws, a circular mouth lined with teeth and a body with swimming flaps along its sides. These traits show it to be part of an #extinct group known as the #radiodonts, which also included the famous #Anomalocaris"
With the upcoming federal elections in May here in Australia, Peter Dutton, the leader of the Slightly More Conservative but Anti Renewable Energy Party has been doing his best to look like his idol, Trump.
Here he is contorting his little mouth so as to imitate the sponging mouth parts of a pre-Cambrian bottom feeding sea creature, like Trump!
(Thanks to @mustardon for image)
Ancient #fossil sheds big light on #evolution enigma, solving a 100-year arthropod mystery
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-ancient-fossil-big-evolution-enigma.html
"#Helmetia expansa belongs to a rare group of early #arthropods called concilitergans, close relatives of #trilobites. Unlike trilobites, concilitergans lacked calcified exoskeletons, so their remains only fossilized under exceptional conditions—like those in the 508-million-year-old #BurgessShale of Canada, where even soft tissues like guts, legs, and gills were preserved."
Thinking about fossil marine invertebrates that Kielan-Jaworowska studied at the beginning of her career, made me think of this pattern made from my linocut animal prints with collaged washi papers from the Cambrian Period (from 538.8 million to 485.4 million years ago). 🧵
https://www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/16990670-cambrian-sea-by-minouette
#linocut #printmaking #pattern #surfaceDesign #paleontology #sciArt #Cambrian #BurgessShale #trilobite #wiwaxia #Opabinia #InverteFest #invertebrate #fossils #MastoArt
You know what? Sod this #JurassicPark rubbish.
I want a #Cambrian Park, please. Bring back the #BurgessShale #hallucigenia !
@vbuendiar I am not academically trained, but I love hashtags and the more specific, the better. By field, and focus are great.
I like being hooked in by general hashtags like #science but then it's great when I can find people who are into #Cambrian #Fossils from the #BurgessShale and have theories on what #Hallucigenia would get up to. This is both fascinating and makes a great jumping off/in place and reveals other like minded folk to follow.
You get used to writing with #hashtags
In 1909, Charles Doolittle Walcott discovered fossils of many strange extinct animals from the early Cambrian period in the Burgess Shale. #Poetry #Science #History #Paleontology #Cambrian #BurgessShale #Walcott (https://sharpgiving.com/thebookofscience/items/p1909c.html)
23-JUL-2024
Taco-shaped arthropod from Royal Ontario Museum’s #BurgessShale #fossils gives new insights into the history of the first mandibulates
Exceptional fossils show how #mandibulates were trapping prey in marine ecosystems 500 million years ago
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1051886 #science #ecology #evolution
Taco-shaped arthropod #fossils give new insights into the history of the first mandibulates https://phys.org/news/2024-07-taco-arthropod-fossils-insights-history.html
The #Cambrian #Odaraia alata and the colonization of nektonic suspension-feeding niches by early mandibulates https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2024.0622
"#Paleontologists are finally able to place it to the #mandibulates, ending its long enigmatic classification since it was first discovered in the #BurgessShale over 100 years ago and revealing more about early #evolution and diversification."
Our WA state car license plates names the EV Ioniq5 Pikaia and features an image of a steelhead. Interesting news about a favorite fossil. #fossils #BurgessShale #cambriancoastline https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/11/science/pikaia-vertebrate-evolution.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1k0.mAGY.Wx3h7J_Hl2FE&smid=url-share
@minouette
I love your color speculations, it would be cool if they turned out to be so colorful. Present-day crustaceans like mantis shrimp are pretty wildly colored. Also, that fabric would make a great wallpaper in my midcentury pink-tiled bathroom!
#WonderfulLife #BurgessShale #science #evolution
Snippet of lunchtime lecture during #burgessshale hike
Yesterday’s adventure was the #burgessshale! About a 7 hour steep hike with lots of security cameras and scary signs protecting the fossils from poachers… but totally worth to see how happy jr. was ❤️
If you’re lucky enough to do this hike I cannot recommend our guide, David Moore enough! At lunch we received a lecture of a lifetime what life in the Cambarian period was like, with gusto and humour while being so very encouraging and attentive to our young palaeontologist.
Round one, poll one of the #CAMBRIANSMACKDOWN!
#ANOMALOCARIS vs. #YOHOIA
Graphic with visuals of our fighters in the replies!
#Poll #Tournament #Bracket #Cambrian #CambrianExplosion #Arthropods #Fossils #Fossil #Polls #Paleontology #AnomalocarisCanadensis #BurgessShale #YohoiaTenuis #Radiodont #Megacheiran
Global News BC: World’s oldest swimming jellyfish found in B.C.’s Burgess Shale https://globalnews.ca/news/9875211/oldest-jellyfish-burgess-shale-fossil/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #World'soldestjellyfish #BurgessShalejellyfish #Oldestjellyfishfossil #BurgessShalefossil #RoyalOntarioMuseum #Oldestjellyfish #BurgessShale #Science #Canada
Researchers identify oldest known species of swimming jellyfish https://phys.org/news/2023-08-oldest-species-jellyfish.html
A macroscopic free-swimming #medusa from the middle #Cambrian Burgess Shale https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2022.2490
"#Burgessomedusa unambiguously shows that large, swimming #jellyfish with a typical saucer or bell-shaped body had already evolved more than 500 million years ago. Burgessomedusa #fossils are exceptionally well preserved at the #BurgessShale considering jellyfish are roughly 95% composed of water."
Clues in the clay: #Scientists narrow the search for the first animals https://news.yale.edu/2023/06/27/clues-clay-scientists-narrow-search-first-animals
#Fossilisation processes and our reading of animal antiquity https://www.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/fulltext/S0169-5347(23)00137-4
"They studied areas around the world with #sediments closest to the conditions of the #BurgessShale, particularly deposits with similar #clay compositions. Those sites date to 789 million years ago and older. But none of those sites yielded animal #fossils, implying that #animals had not evolved by that time."
Middle Ordovician 'marine dwarf world' found in Castle Bank, Wales https://phys.org/news/2023-05-middle-ordovician-marine-dwarf-world.html
A Middle #Ordovician #BurgessShale-type fauna from Castle Bank, #Wales https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02038-4
The site comprises over 150 species, with many of miniaturized body size. It is one of the world's most unexpected #fossil sites. In some #animals, internal organs such as digestive systems and even nerves are preserved, together with the limbs of tiny #arthropods and delicate filter-feeding tentacles.
Trilobites from the Mount Stephen UNESCO World Heritage Site, part of the mid-Cambrian (510-505 Ma) Burgess Shale. Photos are all you can take!
#FossilFriday #BurgessShale #Trilobite
#BurgessShale
Look how beautiful the preservation of this 505 million-year-old fossil is !
https://twitter.com/PlLife2/status/1613959135917113360
#FossilAdventCalendar Day 12
#MarineLifeMonday
#BritishColumbia's 🇨🇦 #BurgessShale is one of our planet's most important important (and beautiful) #fossil sites. Sitting high in #BC's #RockyMountains, it's a window into the early evolution of #animals. Among its weird wonders is Hallucigenia (seen here in fossil and sculpture form at the #RoyalOntarioMuseum), a distant relative of #arthropods so unlike anything alive today that for years it was reconstructed upside down and backwards.
