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Recap of Today’s Dino Q&A

A picture of David Evans (ROM) and fellow dino hunter Dr. M. Ryan excavating a fossil in Alberta shared on Twitter during the Q&A. Dr. David Evans, ROM palaeontologist and dino hunter, took your questions over twitter this afternoon for a one-hour Q&A. Here’s a recap of the

Southern Alberta field collection 2011 has arrived!

Marked field jackets containing horned dinosaur bones from the McPheeter’s bonebed (MBB) and the South Side Ceratopsian (SSC). The fossil bones that we collected from the Milk River region of southern Alberta arrived late last week, and we have just opened the massive crate and inventoried the

Overgrown Bone — A ROM Paleontologist identifies the fish with the swollen head

Originally published in the Summer 2010 edition of ROM Magazine. Bluecheek Silver grunt   Q. I found this object on a beach in Oman. I think it might be part of a fish skull. If it is, can you tell me what kind of fish it is from? Mike Silver, Toronto A. You are indeed correct: it is part of a

 The life cycle of a new fossil: Meet the ancient cousin of the earthworm

The life cycle of a new fossil: Meet the ancient cousin of the earthworm

By Karma Nanglu Have you ever wondered how a new fossil is described? Or picked up an earthworm on a rainy day and thought to yourself “where do animals like these come from?” In this ROMblog post, I’ll walk you through the process of describing an exceptionally well-preserved new fossil

Huge cache of fossils from the Burgess Shale reveal a new species of large predator

Huge cache of fossils from the Burgess Shale reveal a new species of large predator

Joe Moysiuk – Phd Student & Vanier Scholar, Royal Ontario Museum & University of Toronto We recently unveiled fossils of a new large predatory species in a paper in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. This animal had rake-like claws and a pineapple-slice-shaped mouth at the front of an

Mighty Burgess Shale fossil site discovered in Kootenay National Park

Mighty Burgess Shale fossil site discovered in Kootenay National Park

This new fossil assemblage is about the same age as the famous Burgess Shale deposit in Yoho National Park, and has the potential to become at least as significant. Since it was discovered by Charles Walcott in 1909, the Burgess Shale has remained the main source of information about Cambrian

Three cheers for Burgess Shale’ newest oddball animal, a worm with waving “arms”

By Jean-Bernard Caron, Senior Curator of Invertebrate Palaeontology, Royal Ontario Museum  Today, the ROM is announcing a spectacular new species from the world-famous Burgess Shale site in Yoho National Park. Its name, Ovatiovermis cribratus, means “standing suspension-feeding worm” in Latin

The secret of Oesia: a Burgess Shale mystery, by Karma Nanglu

My name is Karma Nanglu and I’m a PhD student at the University of Toronto, but on a day-to-day basis I do my research at the Royal Ontario Museum. I’ve recently co-authored a research paper, Cambrian suspension-feeding tubicolous hemichordates, with Jean-Bernard Caron, Curator, Invertebrate

New Research from the Burgess Shale: Thorny worms that swarmed in the Cambrian seas

New Research from the Burgess Shale: Thorny worms that swarmed in the Cambrian seas

Hallucigenia sparsa is no ordinary animal. This poster child of the Burgess Shale biota is the ultimate weirdo, and the ROM holds the world’s largest collection of specimens. New research published July 31st in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B, provides fresh new revelations about