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New find hits Cambrian fossil jackpot—again

• ars technica
.... Now, following on the heels of a discovery of some fossils higher up in the same rock formation that hosted the Burgess Shale biota, researchers led by the Royal Ontario Museum’s Jean-Bernard Caron think they’ve hit a new motherlode nearby. In a two meter thick section of shale, the researchers have recovered over 3,000 specimens of 55 different organisms—and that’s with only 15 days of collection so far....

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Comment by PureTrust
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Oh drat! All these fossils, and still not even one missing link!