Synopsis

"Rare Glimpses" explores those fragmented corners of the fossil record, places where understanding remains elusive. We journey to the Burgess Shales in British Columbia, Canada, home to an extraordinary deposit of soft-bodied creatures – organisms that typically leave no trace in stone. The animals preserved within the Burgess Shale are strikingly beautiful, wonderfully improbable, and undeniably bizarre. While trilobites were the most common inhabitants of those 500 million years ago, a fundame