Cambroraster: New Species from the Burgess Shale Discovered by ROM Palaeontologists

Royal Ontario Museum fieldwork video showing the team working in Kootenay National Park excavating #BurgessShale fossils. This video captures the moment of exposing a fossilized carapace of Cambroraster, as well as 3d animation of Cambroraster. This new species has rake-like claws and a pineapple-slice-shaped mouth at the front of an enormous head, and it sheds light on the diversity of the earliest relatives of insects, crabs, spiders, and their kin. The findings were announced July 31, 2019, in a stud