“Absolutely Mind-Boggling” Massive New Animal Species Discovered
in 500 Million-Year-Old Burgess Shale. SciTechDaily, Sptember 8, 2021
[scitechdaily.com]

‘Spaceship-Shaped’ Fossil Reveals Hungry Predator of Ancient Oceans
Titanokorys gainesi, turned up in the Canadian Rockies, was among the
largest known predators 500 million years ago. Trilobites, New York Times
[www.nytimes.com]

A Football-Shaped Animal Species Is Discovered In A 500-Million-Year-
Old Shale, NPR, September 9, 2021
[www.npr.org]

The open access paper is:

Caron, J.-B., and Moysiuk, J., 2021. A giant nektobenthic radiodont from
the Burgess Shale and the significance of hurdiid carapace diversity. Royal
Society Open Science. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.210664
[royalsocietypublishing.org]

Yours,

Paul H.

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a Nun (1951)