Tommotian and Burgess Shale formations give clues about Precambrian evolution.

早间，Tommotian和伯吉斯页岩化石群为前寒武纪进化提供了线索。

So the Burgess Shale specimens weren't so spectacular after all.

所以，布尔吉斯页岩标本原来并非那么不可思议。

100 years ago, a fossil field was discovered here at the Burgess Shale that may reveal how light shaped life on Earth.

100 年前，人们在这里的伯吉斯页岩中发现了大量古生物化石，它们向我们展示了光在生物进化中的巨大作用。

At 9: 04 P.M. trilobites swim onto the scene, followed more or less immediately by the shapely creatures of the Burgess Shale.

晚上9点4分，三叶虫登场了，几乎紧接着出场的是布尔吉斯页岩那些形状美观的动物。

We've found nice, full-body fossils of priapulids like Ottoia in the Burgess Shale.

我们在伯吉斯页岩中发现了像 Ottoia 这样的 priapulids 的漂亮全身化石。

For one thing, 500-million-plus years ago when the Burgess Shale was formed it wasn't at the top of a mountain but at the foot of one.

首先，当5亿多年前布尔吉斯页岩形成的时候，它不在山顶上，而是在山脚下。

This is probably one of the most common fossils from the Burgess shale.

这可能是伯吉斯页岩中最常见的化石之一。

Many of them more closely resembled animals from the Burgess Shale, which lived 20 million years earlier.

它们中的许多更类似于生活在 2000 万年前的伯吉斯页岩中的动物。

And one of the most famous examples of these rainout deposits in deep water is the Burgess shale.

深水中降雨沉积物最著名的例子之一是伯吉斯页岩。

It turns out that the kinds of animals that thrived in the time of the Burgess Shale hadn't died out.

事实证明，在伯吉斯页岩时代繁衍生息的动物种类并没有灭绝。

And there's no better place to see the evidence of this, than in the gray stone of British Columbia's Burgess Shale.

没有比不列颠哥伦比亚省伯吉斯页岩的灰色石头更好的地方可以看到这方面的证据了。

In the famed Burgess Shale rock formation, paleontologists discovered hundreds of fossils of a horseshoe crab–shaped, prehistoric predator that lived in the ocean 506 million years ago.

加拿大：在著名的伯吉斯页岩岩层中，古生物学家发现了数百块生活在 5. 06 亿年前海洋中的马蹄蟹形史前捕食者的化石。