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Join us for a guided hike to the Burgess Shale in Yoho national Park
and spend a day with a Parks Canada interpreter.
So one of the things that we'll see when we get up to the quarry
is we'll see a real amazing diversity of body plans.
So we see creatures that were predators, creatures that would have been scavengers,
creatures that were at the very bottom of the food chain,
and animals with all kinds of defensive techniques.
A visit to the Burgess Shale is very special because you really get to be hands on with the rock,
to step into a little bit of history and see some spectacular fossils
and do it in a fantastic surrounding.
I mean, one of the most beautiful spots on the planet.
So the mountains are young but falling apart.
But the Burgess Shale fossils are ancient.
Half a billion years old and still perfectly preserved waiting for us to come and see.
This is more than what I expected.
I didn't really expect that much other than a long hike, but it has it's benefits
and it's definitely been nice to stop and enjoy the scenery
and especially to get up here and kind of look around for fossils and stuff like that.
You really feel like you're doing something and you're not just behind a velvet rope,
you're really touching and feeling it - it's really fun.
I'm very surprised that there are so much and that they are so old and that you can see them everywhere.
You just sit here and pick up a rock and there's a fossil.
You just look here and there and, um, it's beyond what I thought it would be.
It's amazing. It's almost humbling that this is almost half a billion years old
and it's still here and we can see it and experience it.
And this is the start of life that's you and me today.
You expect to see maybe half a dozen, and there are just everywhere, all the fossils.
For more information, visit our website at pc.gc.ca/burgessshale
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