John Orcutt<p><a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/FossilAdventCalendar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilAdventCalendar</span></a> Day 12<br><a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/MarineLifeMonday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MarineLifeMonday</span></a></p><p><a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/BritishColumbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BritishColumbia</span></a>'s 🇨🇦 <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/BurgessShale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BurgessShale</span></a> is one of our planet's most important important (and beautiful) <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/fossil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fossil</span></a> sites. Sitting high in <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/BC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BC</span></a>'s <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/RockyMountains" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RockyMountains</span></a>, it's a window into the early evolution of <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>animals</span></a>. Among its weird wonders is Hallucigenia (seen here in fossil and sculpture form at the <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/RoyalOntarioMuseum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RoyalOntarioMuseum</span></a>), a distant relative of <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/arthropods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>arthropods</span></a> so unlike anything alive today that for years it was reconstructed upside down and backwards.</p>