Figure 1 — Nectocaris, as preserved in the Burgess Shale. The same organism can look very different depending on its angle of burial, and reconstructing the original three-dimensional animal requires fossils preserved in just the right ways.
Figure 1 — Nectocaris, as preserved in the Burgess Shale. The same organism can look very different depending on its angle of burial, and reconstructing the original three-dimensional animal requires fossils preserved in just the right ways.