Strange phallus-shaped creature provides crucial missing link: Discovery pushes fossil record back 200 million years
Wednesday, March 13, 2013 - 13:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Christopher Cameron of the University of Montreal's Department of Biological Sciences and his colleagues have unearthed a major scientific discovery - a strange phallus-shaped creature they found in Canada's Burgess Shale fossil beds, located in Yoho National Park. The fossils were found in an area of shale beds that are 505 million years old.