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Burgess Shale

The Invertebrate Palaeontology team has returned from their annual expedition to the Burgess Shale! Each year, they travel via plane and helicopter to the Canadian Rockies, where they camp out for 3 weeks or more and go fossil hunting. We will be sharing more footage from their trip, so stay tuned! Here, we see Jean-Bernard Caron (Richard M. Ivey Curator of Invertebrate Palaeontology) splitting a huge rock and discovering some Canadaspis perfecta fossils. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the perfect c

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