At https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/07/fossils-found-grand-canyon-alien-like/ … The headline says alien like early creatures – going back 500 million years. A team from Cambridge University have been poking around in the Grand Canyon. Fossils turned up in shale rocks formed during the Cambrian Explosion. This is supposed to be evidence of a sudden blossoming of life on Earth. In a catastrophist model it would be quite different. A global event that preserved life forms that had been extent prior to the event. Not an explosion – but the end point of an unknown period of life on Earth. The Cambrian Explosion is known from the Burgess Shale deposit in Canada and the Maotianshan shales of China. Now we have it in the middle of North America – at the Grand Canyon.
The shale deposit was subsequently taken to a laboratory and dissolved, using hydrofloric acid. From the disappearing rock they found the fossils, described as microscopic in size. They even included soft bodied animals, rarely preserved in the fossil record – and impossible if they had not been preserved instantaneously. That in itself is a catastrophic signature – yet alone the tangled nature of the Burgess Shale. The shale itself, of course, is sediment that has become rock hard.
Many of the fossils revealed were in remarkable detail. Spiky teeth for example, scraping limbs and feeding tools. In fact, many of them had a wide variety of feeding styles, we are told, used to process their food. Some of these have modern counterpart.