#Burgess Shale

Author: Carolyn Gramling / Source: Science News For most of the nearly 3.5 billion years of documented life on Earth, creatures were simple, dominated by organisms such as bacteria, algae and fungi (SN: 10/13/18, p. 10). Then, beginning about 541 million years ago, life quickly diversified into

Author: Jessica Leigh Hester / Source: Atlas Obscura Millions of years ago, some bird met the end of its life. Maybe it happened to flutter to the ground in a special place at a special time, where maybe, just maybe, the conditions were right to preserve its remains for millions of years. It