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 of
508 million years ago, thousands of bizarre creatures were killed instantly by a sudden underwater mudslide that, creating a time capsule for scientists to peer into the middle Cambrian period.
And yet, the quantity of fossils from the site is so enormous, it has taken scientists over two decades to properly document the most complete specimens of a radiodont ever seen.
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