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From the Field: Southern Alberta Dinosaur Project 2011 – Visitors!
July 6-8: Visitors These past few days we have had some welcome visitors to Camp. First, some of our colleagues from the Montana State University and the Museum of the Rockies joined us for a day on July 6th. They are working the same series of rocks just a few kilometers south of us in Montana,
From the Field: Southern Alberta Dinosaur Project 2011 – Found a skull!
July 3, 2011: The South Side Ceratopsian Quarry At the end of last field season, one of our crew made a very intriguing discovery – some vertebrae and a good skull bone from a single small site on the south side of the Milk River. The skull bone was a squamosal, a bone that forms the bottom of
From the Field: Southern Alberta Dinosaur Project 2011
We are back again in southern Alberta, to continue our palaeontological survey and excavation of the Milk River region and adjacent areas. This blog will document how this field season progresses, and will report on any new and exciting dinosaur discoveries from the field! June 28, 2011: Home Sweet
The ROM changed my life- it's in my DNA.
When I tell people I volunteer at the ROM’s DNA laboratory they are surprised. Not because I’m volunteering at the ROM, but because they are unaware of the fantastic work that goes on behind the scenes at the ROM. My name is Christine Black and I’m in grade 12, and since September 2012, I
The Making of Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia: Inventing Our World is coming to the ROM on June 22! The ROM's newest special exhibition explores innovations of ancient Mesopotamia that shaped our world today. Mesopotamia features treasures from 3,000 years of civilization in Sumer, Assyria, and Babylon, and includes o ver
Mesopotamia: The First Reviews Are In
Our newest feature exhibition, Mesopotamia: Inventing Our World, opened just a few days ago and already, broadcast, digital and print media are buzzing with critical acclaim. Likewise, the newly opened Catastrophe! Ten Years Later, documenting the looting of Iraq's museums and archaeological
LIFE! CAMERAS! ANIMALS! Neighbourhood Nature Watch
By Katherine Ing During the intense light of a summer afternoon a group of determined photographers, inspired by the ROM's Sebastiaõ Salgado’s photography exhibit Genesis, strolled through the natural beauty surrounding the Royal Ontario Museum. One of famed photographer Sebastião
Ontario BioBlitz 2013: Report from the Field
What do you get when you gather more than 400 avidly curious citizen-scientists in a 40-square-kilometre park to count species for 24 straight hours? Well… you get more than 100 different types of bird, 80 different spiders, hundreds of insects, approaching 600 plants… and a tonne of fun! In
Ben & Bruno’s Excellent Trilobite Adventure
Curatorial staff in attendance at the ROM’s popular bimonthly Rock, Gem, Mineral, Fossil, and Meteorite Identification Clinics are routinely treated to a fascinating array of objects brought in by an equally fascinating cross-section of our museum visitors. From very junior geologists clutching
Welcome to 2014 at the ROM
As the ROM prepares to celebrate its Centennial beginning this March, I have been reflecting on the year that’s just passed and all the inspiring activity that’s taken place at the Museum. The highlights for me from the past 12 months include opening our critically acclaimed Mesopotamia: