Study offers new insights into the powerful anticoagulants contained in the saliva of leeches most often used in medical practice TORONTO, ON – JUNE 18, 2020 – The results of new research published

Kensington Tours will match community donations up to $50,000, with free admission passes distributed through ROMCAN partners TORONTO, JUNE 16, 2020— The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) and Kensington

TORONTO, June 9, 2020 –The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is pleased to announce that the ROM-original exhibition Bloodsuckers: Legends to Leeches has been named an Overall Winner at the  32nd Annual

TORONTO, June 5, 2020 – Josh Basseches, Director & CEO of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), announced today the appointment of Lynda Roscoe Hartigan as Deputy Director for Collections & Research and

TORONTO, ON (May 11, 2020) — The oldest molecular fluids in the solar system could have supported the rapid formation and evolution of the building blocks of life, new research in the journal

TORONTO, May 11, 2020 – While the doors of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) remain temporarily closed, audiences can explore and experience the Museum online with the launch of ROM at Home. Accessible

TORONTO, CANADA (May 11, 2020) -- New research published today in the journal Nature Astronomy reveals a type of destructive event most often associated with disaster movies and dinosaur extinction

May 8, 2020 ̶ Toronto ̶ Uncover/Recover, an award-winning multimedia project from the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), OCAD University, and the Province of Ontario, is now live online. Celebrating

TORONTO, May 04, 2020 — An international team of scientists have revealed new insights into the inner workings of ancient dinosaur communities. Seventy-five million years ago, North America was

TORONTO, April 28, 2020 –The Royal Ontario Museum is pleased to announce that Dr. Alexandra Palmer, the ROM’s Nora E. Vaughan Senior Curator has won the Costume Society of America’s (CSA) prestigious

Every spring birds travel north to their breeding areas. In celebration of Earth Day 2020 the ROM is sharing what you can do to help birds as they migrate to their breeding areas in Ontario and

Learn more about what it’s like to be a wildlife photographer.

The Canadian loons are back in season. When the long cold spring finally ends, my mind turns to the summer season of camping and rustic cabins. It’s at this point that thoughts of loons start to fill

Rethinking the spread of early civilization in the Andes. Sometime in the mid-ninth century AD, a llama caravan descended a narrow trail into the Sihuas Valley of southern Peru. Some of the people

How an ancient Greek statue found its way to our conservation lab. One of my colleagues in the Greek and Roman Art department was touring the galleries with her daughter when her daughter looked up