Cambrian Fossil Find...

[vetuste_ennemi]

...in China.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-47667880

[douglas9401]

Remarkable. I'm looking forward to an explanation of fossilised jelly.

This could break the mould!

[Zacs-Master]

I’ll get some nails.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Exciting because of the preservation of soft tissue, Douglas.

Coincidentally, only last night I was watching a program I recorded ages ago on the similarly exceptional Cambrian fossils found in the Burgess Shales.

[Mamyalynne]

Brilliant finds.

[douglas9401]

"Exciting because of the preservation of soft tissue, Douglas."

Exactly my point, I just need help in understanding the process whenit's usually bones and feathers that are preserved.

[Mamyalynne]

It bears reading up on but initially it appears both the speed of the rising mud that covered then and the make up of that mud may have contributed.

Fascinating.

[Peter Pedant]

// only last night I was watching a program I recorded ages ago on the similarly exceptional Cambrian fossils found in the Burgess Shales.//

yeah that was pretty remarkable - it comes around every few years

[vetuste_ennemi]

//yeah that was pretty remarkable - it comes around every few year//

I'm not bright enough to understand the insult, Peter. You'll have to explain it to me, otherwise your point in making it will be lost.

[vetuste_ennemi]

...and thank you for your contribution to my thread.

[Mamyalynne]

I presumed Peter meant they reshow the programme every so often.

[Peter Pedant]

There was a program about the Burgess shales - it involved going out to the back of beyond where it was very cold and climbing up a cliff face to see the original site worked in 1909

a year or so later - there was a program about the Burgess shales - it involved going out to t where it was very cold and climbing up a cliff face to see the original site that walcott worked in 1909

then some years later
here was a third program about the Burgess shales - it involved going out to Canada .....

and I realised that the program was the same one
it has just come around every few years

no insult

some try hard ( bust a gut ) to find insult where there is none
but hey this is AB in full swing on Sunday night

oo and thanks for the link to another program about the Burgess shale - you know Stephen J Gould wrote a book about it?

[Peter Pedant]

Thank you mama - admirably and succinctly put

I mean the sentiment was pretty obvious innit - that is if you are a committed Burgess Shale programme watcher ( which of course I am)

[Mamyalynne]

Never miss one.

[Peter Pedant]

The book by Gould is worth a read

he was famous in his life time and pretty sure he was right the whole time - but apparently his successors and chewing their pencils and stating they arent quite sure

[Mamyalynne]

I'll bear it mind, ta.

[sanmac]

This sort of reminds me being quite entranced with finding trilobites in pieces of shale when I was a kid.

[Peter Pedant]

the wiki article

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossils_of_the_Burgess_Shale

is remarkably good considering - - - it is wiki

[Mamyalynne]

It is a fair article and some good links onward too , thanks.

Night Peter.

[ladybirder]

518 million years old. So beautiful. Wow.