The new fossils were spotted in a mountain cliff, in Marble Canyon, about 26 miles southeast of the original Burgess Shale site. Researchers hope to protect the exact location to prevent looting.

Cliffs in Marble Canyon, where a treasure trove of Cambrian fossils was discovered in 2012. The fossils are in the Burgess Shale, and rival the famed original Burgess Shale fossil site in ...

Gaines and his colleagues discovered the Marble Canyon fossils in 2012 as they were tracing Cambrian rocks on foot across the Rockies, in hopes of finding more Burgess Shale-type deposits.They had ...

Hagen has layered oil paint, sand, varnish, marble dust and dry pigments—including iron oxides, ... "Fossils of the Anthropocene" is on display at the AAAS Art Gallery through November 19, 2014.

Fossils weaken the strength of […] In July 2002, an Italian man named Mr Francioni found something strange. Francioni owns a marble-cutting company in the Tuscan town of Pietrasanta, ...

In 2002, an Italian marble cutter discovered the skeleton of an early whale inside a large block of 40-million-year-old marblized limestone from Egypt while slicing the rock into slabs for ...

Specimen of the early trilobite Kootenia burgessensis from the new Marble Canyon locality, British Columbia. From Caron et al., Nature Communications, 2014. The famous Burgess Shale fossil locality in ...

Close-up of an ammonite fossil preserved in marble paving in Urbino, Italy. And it’s not just ancient civilisations that used fossils for building.

Fossil trackers Gaines and his colleagues discovered the Marble Canyon fossils in 2012 as they were tracing Cambrian rocks on foot across the Rockies , in hopes of finding more Burgess Shale-type ...