New Burgess Shale site not far from the other…and they have better preservation on some specimens. The people who deal with this Cambrian site are excited.
Burgess Shale bed: new find
by CJ | Feb 12, 2014 | Journal | 6 comments
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Yes, I read about that last evening from my “My Yahoo” page. Sometimes those are more or less digests, so I’ll go see what Science Daily has to say.
BTW, off-hand I’d say that’s just west of Drumheller, so if you’re planning a trip to the Royal Tyrell, that would make a very appropriate loop to the trip, wouldn’t it? 😉 🙂
Note that in this version I read yesterday, it says: “(Visitors to the Burgess Shale quarry must hike with a park guide and leave their backpacks behind when they approach the fossils.)” I’m not sure how that squares with keeping the locations “confidential”, but perhaps worth investigation, eh? (Since we’re speaking Canadian there… 😉 )
SQUUEEEE! (I love the critters. They’re so weird!)
Thank you for the excellent link.
When I was a very young Blue indeed, maybe about ten, I surprised my science teacher by saying I wanted to be a paleontologist. She wasn’t sure I knew what that was, asked me to spell it, and (heheh) was impressed I knew. But at the time, there were two or three series of books for kids and teens on dinosaurs and other prehistoric life, and my mom (and dad and grandmother) made sure of regular trips to the library and bookstore. One of the series was related to a whole series on science, history, and other interesting subjects for “young adult” readers. These may have been from the Golden Books publishers. It’s been too long since I’ve seen them. (The 1970’s era.)
So, heh, the boy who tags along through Jurassic Park? I can very much identify with that kid.
It also helped that these were creatures both real-world and of the imagination, an alien world right here on Earth, fantasy and science fiction, but factual.
Gosh, that reminds me of one of the very first “science fiction and fantasy” books I read myself. Probably younger than 10, I was home sick, bronchitis or whatever respiratory crud it was every year when I was a kid. One of my teachers (English) sent home a book as a reading assignment. This was a children’s / young adult story, involving a boy who discovers a very, very large egg, which hatches into a dinosaur, a stegosaurus, probably, from what I could recall of the story now. It was a marvelous story. (I always read above grade level, but I was young. I think it was a class assignment, but the teacher might have added it. Anyway, getting me to read was not a problem. 🙂 )
My life went on to other things, but I still love dinosaurs and prehistoric mammals, the whole thing.
“The Enormous Egg”, by Butterworth; boy’s pet chicken lays a gigantic egg that eventually hatches into a triceratops. Rather Henry Reed or Homer Price-esque. I also have fond memories of the Little Golden Field Guides. Our driveway was a quarter mile of mud, so every couple of years Dad ordered a ton of limestone gravel to dump into the worst holes. The only bright spot was being allowed to keep any fossils I found while moving around the rock into the pits (CJ and Jane, I sympathize with the basalt chips…)
I remember a series of books by Roy Chapman Andrews that I, being a girl, was looked askance at for checking out of our elementary school library in the late 1950’s. (Wouldn’t you like something a little more appropriate? No, I wouldn’t.) Anything on natural history, archaeology, paleontology or the like was sure to catch my attention. I fondly remember doing a book report on “Aku-Aku” by Thor Heyerdahl in 8th grade. (We had to make a book jacket that illustrated our book. I even covered mine with Saran Wrap to mimic the plastic film that most library-book book jackets were covered in to protect them.) Looking back, I’m frankly surprised our school library even had such a book.