Yoho
Canada · Canadian RockiesIt holds the Burgess Shale fossil beds, one of the most important palaeontological finds in the world
Area
1,313 km²
Declared in
1886
Region
Canadian Rockies
Climate
Templado, Polar / frío
Best time
June to September
Highlight
It holds the Burgess Shale fossil beds, one of the most important palaeontological finds in the world
Declared in 1886, shortly after Banff, its name comes from a Cree word expressing awe. Its greatest treasure is not visible to the naked eye: the Burgess Shale, found in 1909 by the palaeontologist Charles Doolittle Walcott, holds 508-million-year-old fossils of soft-bodied Cambrian organisms in extraordinary preservation, which transformed the scientific understanding of the explosion of animal life on Earth and include species with no recognisable kinship to any living animal.
Location
See on the interactive map32 species documented in Yoho
Least ConcernAlce
Alces alces
Least ConcernÁguila real
Aquila chrysaetos
Borrego cimarrón
Ovis canadensis
Least ConcernGlotón
Gulo gulo
Least ConcernLince canadiense
Lynx canadensis
Least ConcernLobo gris
Canis lupus
Least ConcernOso negro americano
Ursus americanus
Least ConcernOso pardo
Ursus arctos
Least ConcernPuma
Puma concolor
Marmota canosa
Marmota caligata
Ampelis americano
Bombycilla cedrorum
Búho cornudo americano
Bubo virginianus
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