Amazing specimens from Ontario, such as the giant beaver, stag-moose, and Toronto's namesake, an extinct species of deer named Torontoceros, help us understand the impact of the Ice Age close to home.
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Amber, fossilized tree resin, and its natural preservatives reveal important information about insects and other delicate creatures that otherwise might have been lost forever.
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Three million years ago, North American animals like the sabre-toothed cat entered South America via a new land connection. Find out what other animals invaded South America at the time, and how they enriched the biodiversity of the continent.
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Explore the evolution of animal species and why they exist where they are. The Rhino was once common and diverse in North America, but now extinct here. This Rhino skull is about 5 million years old, and was discovered in Kansas.
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Impressive displays of fossilized plants, insects, corals, fish, turtles and smaller mammals show the amazing biodiversity of the time and what it means to us today.
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The ROM has the oldest known complete bat skeleton. It was collected from 50-million-year-old sediments from Wyoming.