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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 are found

ROM Research: Weighing Giants

inct animals, 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

NEW RESEARCH: Seed Eating May Have Helped Beaked Birds Survive

NEW RESEARCH: Seed Eating May Have Helped Beaked Birds Survive

ight have played a role in the survival of crown-group bird groups in the wake of the asteroid impact," said principal investigator of the study David Evans of the Royal Ontario Museum and the University of Toronto.

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, detailing di

The ROM ‘Minoan’ Goddess: the Suspect Sisters (and brothers)

The ROM ‘Minoan’ Goddess: the Suspect Sisters (and brothers)

The ROM Goddess is just one of the ‘Minoan’ figurines in several museums sometimes thought to be fake.  These two installments of the ROM Minoan Goddess project introduce you to some of the suspected (although not definitively proven) fake figurines, and the genuine Minoan objects that may

NOUVELLE RECHERCHE: Les graines auraient pu aider les oiseaux munis d’un bec à survivre

NOUVELLE RECHERCHE: Les graines auraient pu aider les oiseaux munis d’un bec à survivre

le rôle du régime alimentaire dans la survie des espèces d’oiseaux de groupes-couronnes à la suite de la chute d’un astéroïde », explique David Evans (Musée royal de l’Ontario et Université de Toronto), le chercheur principal de cette étude.

Game Jam

Game Jam

 treat—a private midnight tour of the James and Louise Temerty Galleries of the Age of Dinosaurs, with the Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, David Evans. On the morning of day three, the Game Jammers finished their prototypes and got ready for the first public testing in the

Fact & Falsehood in Ancient Roman and Greek objects

This coming weekend at the ROM (June 9-10) we will have Ancient Rome and Greece Weekend! There will be re-enactors demonstrating and displaying arms and armour, ROM experts and objects, an archery range with more re-enactors, and a myriad of activities including make a lucky “bulla”, creating

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

Summerasuarus: Dino Storage

y Lab 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 Collections