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Southern Alberta field collection 2011 has arrived!

e have plenty to keep us busy in the prep lab. The freshly opened crate of southern Alberta fossils collected by the ROM in 2011. ROM palaeontologist David Evans inspects the collection.  

The 'Goddess' and the Museum: The Early Years

The 'Goddess' and the Museum: The Early Years

The front pages of The Palace of Minos volume 4, published by Sir Arthur Evans in 1935 This is the first of a series of articles that Julia Fenn and I will be writing over the next months as part of the research project about a ROM icon: the ‘Minoan’ Ivory Goddess. For the first three

ROM Fossils & Evolution kicks off #Fossil150!

ROM Fossils & Evolution kicks off #Fossil150!

Posted by: Marianne Mader & David Evans   ROM Fossils & Evolution kicks off #Fossil150 Campaign! This year will mark Canada’s 150th anniversary of Confederation. The year 2017 will be one of reflection and celebration of Canada’s rich cultural, linguistic, geographic- and geological- d

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, detailing di

Student Photographers Shoot for the ROM

Student Photographers Shoot for the ROM

  On Tuesday evening,  April 8, the ROM, in conjunction with The Walrus Foundation, held the book launch of Every Object Has A Story, an amazing new book celebrating 100 years of the ROM.  This is a book about twenty-one iconic artifacts/specimens, with  twenty-one ROM Curators and experts and

Museum Monday with Melissa- May 25, 2015

Museum Monday with Melissa- May 25, 2015

e ROM Daytime. It is a lecture that takes place on the last Thursday of each month at the Museum. This week is sure to be amazing as paleontologist  David Evans will be speaking on  Digging Up a Dinosaur Icon: The ROM Triceratops Project. The lecture will take place in the Eaton Theatre from

The ROM ‘Minoan’ Goddess: The Minoan Relations

The ROM ‘Minoan’ Goddess: The Minoan Relations

After looking at the best known of the dubious ‘Minoan’ figurines (which may be modern) in my last post, here I show some of the genuine Minoan objects discovered in archaeological excavations on Crete.  Read More  ► There are similarities between these certainly Minoan antiquities and the

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 Leadership

ef Human Resources Officer Lori Davison Chief Marketing & Communications Officer Alexis Easton Chief Public Affairs Officer & Board Secretary David Evans Co-Chief Curator, Natural History Brian McCrady, Chief Facilities Officer, Capital Development & Facilities Shyam Oberoi Chief

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