Paleontologists find massive half-billion-year-old fossil species in Canadian Rockies

Paleontologists find massive half-billion-year-old fossil species in Canadian Rockies

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Washington DC (UPI) Sep 8, 2021

Paleontologists have discovered a massive new arthropod fossil species that lived in North America during the Cambrian period more than a half-billion years ago. The fossil remains were uncovered from the Burgess Shale deposit found throughout Canada's Kootenay National Park. Scientists described the new species, Titanokorys gainesi, in a paper published Wednesday in the journal

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