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

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

e vertebrate palaeontology collection manager at the ROM. Intrigued, we decided to study the tracks with the curator of vertebrate palaeontology, Dr. David Evans. Upon discovering that the tracks were not actually  Dimetropus , but  Ichniotherium,  which are attributed to diadectids, the larg

Summerasuarus: Dino Storage

b to see how dinosaur bones are extracted from their plaster field jackets after they are hauled back from the field by palaeontologists like Dr. David Evans . But where does the ROM store these fossils once they are free from their rock matrix? Welcome to Vertebrate Palaeontology Collectio

Summerasaurus Part V: The Badlands

that you’re in a place unlike anywhere else in Canada, it all becomes simple and beautiful. This is the environment where Dr. David Evans and his colleagues spend several weeks each year as part of the ROM’s Southern Alberta Dinosaur Project. It’s bone dry and forbiddin

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

he bones. The ceratopsian bones at the South Side Quarry are preserved in a soft mudstone, which is best worked with a pen knife. Dr. David Evans and Dr. Michael Ryan work to excavate a key piece of the frill, the parietal bone. The first day of quarry work was exhilarating, a

ROM Research: Weighing Giants

mals, not only dinosaurs. This was the main goal of a study recently published in the journal BMC Biology by myself and my PhD supervisor Dr. David Evans (Curator of Dinosaurs, Royal Ontario Museum). We set out to test the main criticisms of limb scaling as applied to dinosaur body masses by

Unearthing the oldest dinosaur nesting site

same time in organized colonies, and that the same species used this exact area to lay their eggs year after year. ROM paleontologist David Evans (left) and ROM technician Ian Morrison collect dinosaur nests in white plaster jackets. Photo credit: N. Wong-Ken Just why the dino