China Archives - The Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation One Of The World's Most Important Fossil Sites Fri, 26 Apr 2024 18:47:53 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.burgess-shale.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/cropped-cropped-Adobe-Express-file-32x32.png China Archives - The Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation 32 32 Ancient Squatters: Hermit Behavior in Cambrian “Penis worms” (Priapulids) https://www.burgess-shale.bc.ca/ancient-squatters-hermit-behavior-in-cambrian-penis-worms-priapulids/ Fri, 26 Apr 2024 17:51:30 +0000 https://www.burgess-shale.bc.ca/?p=5107 Move over, hermit crabs! A 2021 paper published in the journal Current Biology suggests similar shell-occupying behavior in an unexpected source: Cambrian priapulid (priapulan) worms, also known as “penis worms” due to their gross morphology (overall shape of the organism) bearing a remarkable similarity to the human penis. World class quality “penis worm” fossils can be found at the Walcott […]

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]]> Five-eyes!? Kylinxia zhangi, a new Opabinia-like fossil https://www.burgess-shale.bc.ca/five-eyes-kylinxia-zhangi-a-new-fossil-like-opabinia/ Thu, 03 Dec 2020 17:14:49 +0000 https://www.burgess-shale.bc.ca/?p=3382 Kylinxia zhangi is a newly described euarthropod with five-eyes. It is was discovered in a Cambrian aged deposit in Chengjiang, China, and was recently described in the journal Nature. Kylinxia looks remarkably like a cross between two Burgess Shale animals, Opabinia regalis and Anomalocaris canadensis. The Burgess Shale is currently dated to 506 million years […]

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]]> Tropical Fossils: The Burgess Shale Is Not Alone! https://www.burgess-shale.bc.ca/tropical-fossils-the-burgess-shale-is-not-alone/ Sun, 15 Nov 2020 18:26:00 +0000 https://www.burgess-shale.bc.ca/?p=2422 Tropical Fossils? The Burgess Shale fossils are found in the Canadian Rockies at a latitude of 51 North. However, the fossilized animals lived and died in the tropics. This change in latitude over time is the result of the slow action of Plate Tectonics. For the last 508 Million years the North America plate has […]

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]]> Qingjiang biota: A Burgess Shale type deposit in China https://www.burgess-shale.bc.ca/qingjiang-biota/ Wed, 03 Apr 2019 20:55:14 +0000 https://www.burgess-shale.bc.ca/?p=2239 The Qingjiang biota, a newly discovered fossil site in China, is a treasure trove for paleontologists studying the Cambrian explosion, when life on Earth suddenly and massively expanded in diversity about 500 million years ago. More than 2,000 specimens were found at the 518 million-year-old site, and half of those specimens represent species of animals that […]

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