A New History of Life

Window to a Lost World—The Burgess Shale (1520x14)

Air date: Jan 01, 2013

In 1909, paleontologist Charles Walcott chanced on one of the most remarkable fossil finds in history: the Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rockies. Tour some of this quarry’s astonishing specimens, which brought the world of the Cambrian explosion to vivid life.