Opabinia regalis, from the Burgess Shale, replica T-Rex meat-eating theropod

meat-eating theropod

The fossil is of a juvenile female

All That Remains chronicles the intriguing findings of Bob Pyle who has spent three decades exploring ancient sites in the mountain state and around the world

it is currently a question of debate as to whether members of Protodonata and the earliest Odonata had aquatic larvae

It had an arboreal lifestyle

Opabinia regalis, from the Burgess Shale, replica T-Rex meat-eating theropodVery Rare Cast of this Burgess Shale Specimen. Cambrian Age, BC, Canada. This creature with its five eyes is a strange looking one indeed. Wielding a long flexible proboscis tipped with grasping spines, its reconstructed image was greeted with laughter as a pretty good joke when first presented at a scientific meeting in 1972. The strange looking reconstruction was soon confirmed, and this creature remains one of the oddities of the Burgess Shale