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Mollisonia

Mollisoniafossils are more mutual and considerably preserved in the Marble Canyon rocks than at the original Burgess Shale quarry site , set up in 1909 .

Shiny finish

A houseclean and preservedLeanchoilidfossil reveals the animal ’s soft appendages .

Bottom of the food chain

Haplophrentis , a petite being that live in a conical eggshell and had two arms that reach outwards , perhaps to pull itself along the seafloor . dodo of these animate being have been found in the guts of other vulture .

Odd trilobite

Naraoiais a trilobite with only two protective shields on its carapace , alternatively of the usual three .

Field camp

A double rainbow breaks above the researchers ' battlefield camp in Kootenay National Park .

Burgess Shale

Burgess Shale

Burgess Shale

Burgess Shale

Burgess Shale

The fossil Keurbos susanae - or Sue - in the rock.

An artist�s reconstruction of Mosura fentoni swimming in the primordial seas.

a closeup of a fossil

An illustration of McGinnis� nail tooth (Clavusodens mcginnisi) depicted hunting a crustation in a reef-like crinoidal forest during the Carboniferous period.

a fossilized feather

Fossilised stomach contents of a 15 million year old fish.

This ichthyosaur would have been some 33 feet (10 meters) long when it lived about 180 million years ago.

Here, one of the Denisovan bones found in Denisova Cave in Siberia.

Reconstruction of the Jehol Biota and the well-preserved specimen of Caudipteryx.

Fossilized trilobites in a queue.

A reconstruction of Mollisonia plenovenatrix shows the animal�s prominent eyes, six legs and weird butt shield

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An image comparing the relative sizes of our solar system�s known dwarf planets, including the newly discovered 2017 OF201

an illustration showing a large disk of material around a star

a person holds a GLP-1 injector

A man with light skin and dark hair and beard leans back in a wooden boat, rowing with oars into the sea

an MRI scan of a brain

A photograph of two of Colossal�s genetically engineered wolves as pups.