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Mysterious ‘catastrophe’ turned this nursery into a graveyard 500 million years ago – Livescience.com

The site contains nearly 3,000 fossil specimens, including 17 species new to science.

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Five-hundred million years ago, an enclave of ancient crustaceans, worms and other creepy-crawly creatures of the deep were tending to their newborn babies when disaster struck. An avalanche of sediment rushed downhill, burying thousands of the creatures…

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