Royal Ontario Museum Blog
Monthly Archive: December
Montréal Botanical Garden hosts the 50th Anniversary meeting of the Canadian Botanical Association
Deb Metsger and I are on the train coming back from Montréal where we attended the 50th Anniversary meeting of the Canadian Botanical Association.
Triceratops Dig Week 1
For the past week, a small crew from the Royal Ontario Museum’s palaeontology division has been excavating a Triceratops site on private ranchland in Harding County, South Dakota.
Your Guide to Family Summer Fun at the ROM
A step-by-step guide to visiting the ROM with your kids!
The Monastery of St Moses, Syria: Introduction
Robert Mason reports on his years of archaeological fieldwork at the Monastery of St Moses, Syria, in this blog series.
Sloth Life
What you may or may not know about this unusual mammal.
A Fish With a Big Bang
New fossils reveal first hints of the evolution of jaws in primitive fish.
Ontario BioBlitz Brings Bad News for Arachnophobes
Guest Blogger and 2014 Ontario Bioblitz Arachnid Taxon team leader Dr. Gergin Blagoev, Research Associate at the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario (BIO), tells us about finding double the expected number of spider species in the Humber River Watershed and shares a couple of the most interesting species that were found.
Sharing of Museum Biodiversity Data on the Web
Learn about where you can find open source data from our biodiversity collections
2014 Ontario Bioblitz Bird Count Gets Results!
Guest blogger and 2014 Ontario Bioblitz Bird Taxon team leader Kevin Kerr, Curator of Birds at Toronto Zoo, writes on some of his experiences inventorying birds, including 9 species-at-risk, from the Humber River Watershed.
Moonbird re-sighting
Back in 1995 ROM ornithologist Dr. Allan Baker was part of an international team that banded a small shorebird in Argentina, a Red-knot soon to become dubbed Moonbird, with a leg band with the number B95 on it.