Part 1: Burgess Shale (Cambrian, Canada)
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Q: Why is the Burgess Shale important?
A: It preserves soft tissues in amazing detail thanks to rapid burial in fine mud avalanches
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Q: What does Burgess Shale reveal about life?
A: Shows an early explosion of animal diversity—some ancestors of modern groups, others with no modern relatives
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Q: Who discovered Burgess Shale and when?
A: Charles Walcott in 1909
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Q: Famous fossil from Burgess Shale?
A: Hallucigenia (originally reconstructed upside down—legs mistaken for spines!)
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