After years of planning, and several pandemic closures, the museum finally opened their new exhibit of Cambrian fossils from the Burgess Shale, and it has been worth the wait. The gallery is beautiful, the fossils are amazing, there's a full wall digital "aquarium" of trilobites and other creatures.
I loved every minute of it! There are so many new fossils on display, including some from a site where I used to go fossil hunting with my dad. (It was legal to pick up loose fossils on the beach, but not to dig or take anything from the cliffs.) I never found a trilobite, but I did have a pretty good collection of leaves and other plant parts.
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| Caterpillar fish aka trilobite |
The museum also did an excellent job pointing out the climate changes that lead to previous mass extictions. Hopefully people make the connection.
Burgess Shale virtual exhibit and fossil collection
Explosion of life on Earth linked to heavy metal
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