| Image | Voter | Winner | Loser | Reason |
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 | Andy Weir | Burgess Shale | Dinosaur Mummy | The Burgess Shale is like nature's own time capsule, preserving a freaky snapshot of life from over 500 million years ago that's got paleontologists giddy with excitement. |
 | Tim Berners-Lee | Burgess Shale | Dinosaur Mummy | As a fossil nerd, the Burgess Shale wins because itโs like stumbling upon the most epic time capsule from the Cambrian Explosion, filled with bizarre creatures that rewrote the history of life on Earth. |
 | Belle | Burgess Shale | Australopithecus Sediba | Dude, the Burgess Shale is like this insane treasure trove of ancient life, showing us a wild variety of bizarre and fascinating creatures that lived hundreds of millions of years ago! |
 | Cliff Clavin | Burgess Shale | Tiktaalik | Well, ya see, the Burgess Shale is like the Grand Central Station of fossils, teeming with more ancient critters than you can shake a stick at, so it's a no-brainer! |
 | Pliny the Elder | Burgess Shale | Sue the T. rex | The Burgess Shale is like a treasure trove of ancient weirdness that rewrote the book on early life, while Sue's just one big, albeit badass, dino. |
 | Doogie Howser | Burgess Shale | Australopithecus Sediba | Burgess Shale is like a 500-million-year-old time capsule of crazy marine life, while Australopithecus Sediba is just another ancient hominin in our family tree, so Burgess Shale totally wins for being way cooler and more diverse. |
 | Cicero | Burgess Shale | Dinosaur Mummy | Burgess Shale rocks because it's like this crazy, ancient snapshot of a whole ecosystem, showing us all sorts of funky, soft-bodied creatures that we don't see in fossils much, which is way cooler than just one dino wrapped up like a mummy. |
| Pliny the Elder | Burgess Shale | Ida | The Burgess Shale is like the ultimate fossil jackpot, showcasing a crazy array of early life forms that blew open the doors on our understanding of evolution. |
 | Stephen Hawking | Burgess Shale | Australopithecus Sediba | The Burgess Shale takes the cake with its mind-blowing diversity of ancient life forms, painting an unparalleled picture of early evolution. |
 | Professor Frink | Burgess Shale | Dinosaur Mummy | Oh, glayvin! The Burgess Shale gives us a plethora of weird and wonderful creatures that provide a richer snapshot of early life, don't ya know! |
 | Neal Stephenson | Burgess Shale | Dinosaur Mummy | As a geek who's fascinated by deep time and complexity, the Burgess Shale wins hands down because it holds a treasure trove of bizarre and alien life forms that redefine what we thought possible in ancient ecosystems. |
 | Linus Torvalds | Tiktaalik | Burgess Shale | Tiktaalik is like the rock star of evolution, strutting its stuff as the bridge between water and land, and that's just too cool to ignore. |
| Andy Weir | Tiktaalik | Burgess Shale | Tiktaalik is like the rock star of evolutionary biology, bridging the gap between fish and land animals in a way that's just too cool to ignore. |
 | Guido van Rossum | Burgess Shale | Australopithecus Sediba | Burgess Shale wins because it's like a time capsule of funky prehistoric life, showcasing a wild variety of ancient critters that can blow anyone's scientific mind. |
 | Buckminster Fuller | Burgess Shale | Coelacanth | The Burgess Shale is a treasure trove of evolutionary history, capturing a wide array of strange and diverse life forms that changed our understanding of life's complexity and evolution. |
 | John von Neumann | Lucy | Burgess Shale | Lucy wins because she's the OG ancestor helping us piece together human evolution, while Burgess Shale is just a dope fossil site with some wild creatures. |
 | Claude Shannon | Burgess Shale | Ida | The Burgess Shale is like a treasure trove of weird and wonderful ancient life, giving us crazy insights into early evolution. |
 | Antoine Lavoisier | Burgess Shale | Archaeopteryx | The Burgess Shale is like a time capsule giving us a crazy diverse glimpse into early life, way before the cool Archaeopteryx even took flight. |
 | Guglielmo Marconi | Lucy | Burgess Shale | Lucy rocks because she's the OG hominid who showed us where we came from, while Burgess Shale is cool and all with its funky fossils, but it's not as groundbreaking in the human story. |
| Neal Stephenson | Burgess Shale | Dinosaur Mummy | As a writer fascinated by deep time and ancient, complex ecosystems, the Burgess Shale wins because it's a mind-blowing window into the Cambrian explosion and life's bizarre, early diversity. |
 | Charles Babbage | Burgess Shale | Ida | Burgess Shale is like a funky time capsule of weird and wild ancient critters, giving us a rad peek into early complex life. |
 | Socrates | Burgess Shale | Sue the T. rex | The Burgess Shale is like nature's ultimate mixtape, showcasing an insane range of ancient life that rewrote what we knew about evolution. |
 | David Foster Wallace | Burgess Shale | Ida | Burgess Shale is where evolution went buckwild with diversity, showing just how freaky and wondrous life can get. |
| Socrates | Burgess Shale | Lucy | The Burgess Shale's got a whole lineup of ancient critters that paint a wild picture of early life, making it a rad treasure trove over Lucy's solo act. |
| Buckminster Fuller | Burgess Shale | Archaeopteryx | Burgess Shale is like a treasure trove of ancient life's diversity, showing us the wild experimentation of evolution, while Archaeopteryx is just one cool bird-dino hybrid. |
| Socrates | Burgess Shale | Tiktaalik | The Burgess Shale is like a treasure chest of ancient weirdos, showing off an insane variety of life forms that rewrote what we thought we knew about evolution. |
| David Foster Wallace | Burgess Shale | Dinosaur Mummy | Burgess Shale, man, it's like a time capsule of the freakiest, most mind-bending evolutionary explosion ever, way richer in diversity and insight than just one well-preserved dino. |
 | Klaus Teuber | Burgess Shale | Coelacanth | Burgess Shale is like the ultimate treasure trove of ancient life, making Coelacanth feel like just one cool fossil fish. |
 | Leonardo da Vinci | Burgess Shale | Dinosaur Mummy | The Burgess Shale paints a broader tapestry of ancient life with its exquisite preservation of soft-bodied creatures, ya know? |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Burgess Shale | Ida | The Burgess Shale is like a crazy treasure trove of bizarre, ancient life that really shows off evolution's wild side, and that's the sort of mind-blowing natural history that gets my gears turning. |