Dive into the findings of the first detailed study of plesiosaur skin, which was a strange mosaic of textures.

We report a virtually complete plesiosaur from the Lower Jurassic (∼183 Ma)3 Posidonia Shale of Germany that preserves skin ...

With serpentine necks, flippers and a mouth full of needle-sharp teeth, plesiosaurs have captured imaginations since ...

A small team of archaeologists, geologists, paleontologists and climate scientists has found that at least one type of ...

"The shale's unique setting hosted a diverse ecosystem with extraordinary fossil preservation, and now we know that the environmental setting exerted a strong influence on the structure of this ...

The Burgess Shale provides us with a rare glimpse into the softer side of paleontology. Most fossils are preserved hard parts – bones, teeth and shells – but one of the most famous fossil locales in ...

In the famous Burgess Shale in Canada, for example, scientists have found dozens of bizarre, previously unknown animals. Interpretation of fossils poses another set of challenges, and their age ...

FROM 508 MILLION YEARS AGO TO TODAYPreserved in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia ... SPECIMEN 41145; All fossils photographed at the Royal Ontario Museum. The striking similarity between ...

This animation created for Evolution: "Great Transformations" depicts creatures whose fossils were found at the Burgess Shale. As alien as these creatures seem, they are also surprisingly familiar.

The fossils of the Burgess Shale offer a glimpse at the incredible diversity of early life on Earth, frozen in time and locked in stone — you just have to go digging to see it. Working at 2,500 ...