Burgess Shale

We watched a video for lab called Darwin's Dilemma about the Burgess Shale. The video itself was not all that enthralling, but the pictures of the landscapes were beautiful! The Burgess Shale is located in British Columbia and it is most famous for its fossilization of the soft parts of ancient organisms. Dating back to the Middle Cambrian Period, the Burgess Shale is as old as 505 million years. It was discovered by the paleontologist Charles Walcott in 1909. Since then the giant fossil field has produced more anatomically odd creatures than they can even be studied!