‘Ovation worm’: Bizarre new Burgess Shale species detailed in journal
Researchers with the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto detailed the 500-million-year-old critter for the first time in a study that is to be published Tuesday in the journal BMC Evolutionary Biology. The bizarre creature, no bigger than a thumb, lived under water in a spot that is today a shale-strewn mountain ridge in British Columbia's Yoho National Park.