High above the Trans-Canada Highway, where it cuts across the continental divide on the BC-Alberta border, there’s a small fossil bed known as the Burgess Shale. A thousand metres below, cars and trucks roll east and west along a ribbon of paving, oblivious of its existence, or its significance. Yet this tiny paleontological site, measuring less than 200 metres in length and 30 metres in height, has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It has seen more than a […]

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