'Fearsome-looking animal' discovered at Burgess Shale in B.C. national park

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Fossils of large predator found in 500-year-old rocks in Rocky Mountains

The species, described in a study published Tuesday in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, is named Cambroraster Falcatus.

"What makes this finding remarkable is that we found hundreds of specimens, including all of the different parts of its body, so we are able to piece back together this organism in pretty remarkable detail," Moysiuk said."It was like a jigsaw puzzle or a Lego box, but you don't have the instructions," said Caron, who's a curator at the Royal Ontario Museum and an assistant professor at U of T."It looks a bit ridiculous in some ways," Caron said.

"This is a super exciting finding for us," Moysiuk said. "Because it's such an abundant organism, we know it was important in the Burgess Shale community at the time." Researchers have said the area and its fossils are furthering the understanding of animal life during the Cambrian Period, when most major groups of animals appear on the fossil record.

 

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Hahhaa only 500 years old?

Was it orange?

That would be 500 *million* years old ... as in the Cambrian

Pre-internet troll.

Really there are rocks that young CTV? Hmmm

You at missing a “million” in there

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