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Massive Barosaurus skeleton discovered at the ROM

cinating and somewhat humorous story, and one the Museum is extremely pleased to tell,” said the ROM’s Director and CEO William Thorsell. Dr. David Evans, new Associate Curator of Vertebrate Palaeontology in the ROM’s Department of Natural History, found the ultimate “skeleton in the clo

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

Summerasaurus Part II: A Day in the Quarry

Mark Farmer recently returned from an expedition to the badlands 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, detai

Ultimate Dinos Sneak Peek: El Chocon

kway surrounding it so visitors can get take in its massive size. Thanks to our hosts, we were allowed to film the skeleton up close. David Evans with the fossil skeleton of Giganotosaurus at the Museo Ernest Bachmann. The village overlooks a man-made lake, which is surrounded

Summerasaurus Part IV: How to Find Dinosaurs

Mark Farmer recently returned from an expedition to the badlands of southern Alberta with Dr. David Evans , Associate Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the ROM, in search of dinosaurs. Join us as Mark and Dr. Evans put up their notes from the field, detailing discoveries, how dinosaurs ar

Capturing Giants

end of March 2012, Randy Dreager and Rob McMahon, both audiovisual specialists on the ROM’s Media Productions team, accompanied exhibition curator David Evans to the province of Neuquén at the northern end of Patagonia in Argentina to shoot on-the-ground mini-documentaries in the places where th

Dinosaur Eggs & Babies: Remarkable Fossils from South Africa

the remarkable ongoing discoveries made by an international team of palaeontologists, including ROM researchers, over the last six years,” said Dr. David Evans, Associate Curator of Vertebrate Palaeontology. “These fossils illuminate in stunning detail how a Massospondylus grew up, from the

Scientists Name Two New Species of Horned Dinosaur

rsity of Alberta. Originally described in 1998 by Ryan and Currie, the dinosaur was referred to as Leptoceratops . Subsequent research by Ryan and David Evans, Ph.D., of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada, determined the specimen was a new genus and species. The genus is named to honor t

Scientists Name Two New Species of Horned Dinosaur

rsity of Alberta. Originally described in 1998 by Ryan and Currie, the dinosaur was referred to as Leptoceratops . Subsequent research by Ryan and David Evans, Ph.D., of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada, determined the specimen was a new genus and species. The genus is named to honor t

Summerasaurus Part III: The Jacketing Process

Mark Farmer recently returned from an expedition to the badlands 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, detai