Ancient animal explosion gets bigger with new finds
Thursday, September 9, 2010 - 12:07
in Paleontology & Archaeology
At least eight new kinds of Earth's earliest animals from the mysterious and controversial Cambrian Explosion have been discovered in a unexpected section of ancient rock 30 miles from the famous Burgess Shale of Canada. The discovery suggests such old, rare fossils are more common than previously thought. Burgess Shale - Paleontology - Earth Science - Fossil - Earth