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From the Field: Southern Alberta Dinosaur Project 2011 – Prospecting for new dinos!

July 10-12: More Surprises from the South Side Work at the South Side Ceratopsian site continues to progress. The scattered skeleton continues to emerge from its surrounding mudstone matrix. Mudstone is made from exactly what it sounds like – mud. Specifically, it is made of the compressed mud

Summerasaurus Part I: Digging for Dinos

Mark Farmer recently returned from an expedition to the far end of southern Alberta with Dr. David Evans, Associate Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the ROM, in search of dinosaurs! Join us over the course of the next month as Mark and Dr. Evans put up their notes from the field, detailing

From the Field: Southern Alberta Dinosaur Project 2011 – Visitors!

July 6-8: Visitors These past few days we have had some welcome visitors to Camp. First, some of our colleagues from the Montana State University and the Museum of the Rockies joined us for a day on July 6th. They are working the same series of rocks just a few kilometers south of us in Montana,

From the Field: Southern Alberta Dinosaur Project 2011 – Found a skull!

July 3, 2011: The South Side Ceratopsian Quarry At the end of last field season, one of our crew made a very intriguing discovery – some vertebrae and a good skull bone from a single small site on the south side of the Milk River. The skull bone was a squamosal , a bone that forms the bottom

From the Field: Southern Alberta Dinosaur Project 2011

We are back again in southern Alberta, to continue our palaeontological survey and excavation of the Milk River region and adjacent areas. This blog will document how this field season progresses, and will report on any new and exciting dinosaur discoveries from the field! June 28, 2011: Home

ROM Research: Permian trackways from P.E.I.

By Kirstin Brink and Jessica Hawthorn, PhD candidates, University of Toronto Many impressive fossils have been found in eastern Canada: the spectacular Precambrian fossils of Mistaken Point, Newfoundland; the Carboniferous early amniotes (egg-laying vertebrates) from the Joggins Fossil

Travels in India, part 2

Senior Preparator, Bob Walsh was asked to give a talk on his specialty, exhibit lighting design, by the National Institute of Design (NID) in Ahmedabad, India. http://www.nid.edu/ Bob has been there for over a week now and here is his second post from India. I thought it would be useful to

Travels in India, part 4

Senior Preparator, Bob Walsh was asked to give a talk on his specialty, exhibit lighting design, by the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad, India. The Sun Temple at Modhera After 90 minutes of travel in a hired car, through what seemed an endless landscape of industrial parks,

Komodo Dragon Preparation, Step 3: Cleaning and Articulating the Bones

The bugs in our infamous Bug Room here at the ROM did an amazing job cleaning our Komodo Dragon bones. However, there was still some manual cleaning required. Luckily, there were dozens of volunteers ready to assist in the process; removing pieces of tendon or dried bits of muscle that the Hide

Better than Saturday morning cartoons

One-year-old Peter likes looking at the paper with his parents on Saturday mornings (or better yet, ripping it apart, says his dad). This past weekend he went straight for the latest copy of Let’s ROM and started flipping through it with a look of intense concentration on his face. The ROM’s