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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

Discover Dinosaurs Digitally in the ROM’s New Galleries

easons that palaeontologists now believe that the Corythosaurus stood on four feet, rather than on its two hind legs. Visitors can also listen to Dr. David Evans, ROM Associate Curator of Vertebrate Palaeontology, as he describes the function of the fascinating head-crests of duck-billed dinosaurs,

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

Dinosaur Family Fun Weekend

om South Africa . Participants include Robert Reisz speaking on South African dinosaur eggs, Scott Sampson on dinosaurs of the “lost continent”, David Evans describing how to find and dig up dinosaur nests and Jason Head on dinosaur-eating snakes. Entry to the Dinosaur Symposium is free, no

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

Discover and Explore at the 33rd Annual ROM RESEARCH Colloquium

Sobol, Senior Conservator, Conservation Department 1:45-2:00 pm Exploration of the Late Cretaceous Dinosaur Faunas of Northern Sudan, Africa -David Evans, Associate Curator, Department of Natural History 2:00-2:15 pm Shahnama : The Persian “Book of Kings” -Karin Ruehrdanz, Cur

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

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