New Major Cambrian Fossil Site Found in British Columbia

[HMS_Beagle]

From the Royal Ontario Museum: A major new fossil site similar to the Burgess Shale has been discovered in Kootenay National Park, British Columbia. Besides many of the well known Burgess Shale animals there have been found several completely new species of early arthropods. Signs are the site may greatly exceed its famous Burgess neighbor both in quantity and quality of Cambrian biota.

Spokesman for the Intelligent Design Creationists Stephen Meyer announced* that the Magic Designer must have been working harder than first thought to POOF all these new specimens into existence while He was doing the other Cambrian ones.

Here's an overview video

And the R.O.M. website

Mighty Burgess Shale fossil site discovered in Kootenay National Park

* OK, that didn't happen yet. But it will.

[rogue06]

From the Royal Ontario Museum: A major new fossil site similar to the Burgess Shale has been discovered in Kootenay National Park, British Columbia. Besides many of the well known Burgess Shale animals there have been found several completely new species of early arthropods. Signs are the site may greatly exceed its famous Burgess neighbor both in quantity and quality of Cambrian biota.

Spokesman for the Intelligent Design Creationists Stephen Meyer announced* that the Magic Designer must have been working harder than first thought to POOF all these new specimens into existence while He was doing the other Cambrian ones.

Here's an overview video

And the R.O.M. website



* OK, that didn't happen yet. But it will.

Perhaps Meyer could examine it for the fossilized remains of a rabbit (or an amphibian, a reptile, a bird or any sort of mammal) in an effort to falsify evolution

On a more serious note the Abstract is available here: A new phyllopod bed-like assemblage from the Burgess Shale of the Canadian Rockies

I could swear I wrote about the discovery of a new Cambrian age fossil site in Kootenay National Park back in the "Fossil Finds" thread in the pre-crash Theologyweb