The Burgess Shale fossils specimens:
Represent all known phyla existing today
Are only of species that existed 500 million years ago
May all be catalogued according to todayÆs classification system

The Rocky Mountain grizzly bear is:
The most dangerous animal of its size in the world
The largest carnivore in the world
The most endangered carnivore in the world

The stretch of track at Kicking Horse Pass was made dangerous by:
The need to use locomotives to haul trains up the slope
The frequent malfunctioning of the safety switches
The 4.5% gradient in the descent