Cut-paper faceless figure crouched over a rock

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Charles Walcott

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Who he was

A fossil hunter who split the dark rock of the Burgess Shale, high in the Canadian Rockies. In 1911 he filed one small smear from it as a worm. In 1977 that smear was studied again and renamed Hallucigenia.

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