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 ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

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.