What accounts for the wild and unique creatures of the Burgess Shale?
It was a separate pond, at least for some period of time. During the time the Burgess Shale pond was productive, the creatures it produced were randomly assembled in ways different from the other primordial ponds. Randomly-assembled unique genes and the genomes available for reuse resulted in a different set of independently-born organisms.
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- There are several newts living in the weed in my pond, and I have seen frogs and toads in it from time to time. Can these wild creatures transmit disease to the fish?
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- What accounts for the wild and unique creatures of the Burgess Shale?
