Palaeontology
Monthly Archive: December Pala
Introducing Zuul, Destroyer of Shins, Generator of Science
![The exceptionally preserved skull of Zuul crurivastator (ROM 75860). Photo of a dinosaur skull](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/zuul-skull-nolabels_1.jpg?itok=HLCQCJYp)
Today, the ROM unveiled a new species of armored dinosaur,
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Triceratops Dig Week 2: June 20 - June 27
![Figure 1. The @ROMPalaeo team working in the Triceratops quarry. ROM Palaeo team working in the Triceratops quarry.](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/tricera-blog-week2_page_1_image_0001.jpg?itok=Hko0Z1uB)
@ROMPalaeo Triceratops Dig Week 2: June 20-June 27
Triceratops Dig Week 1
![The Triceratops quarry was under water when we arrived. Land with water on it](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/tri-quarry.jpg?itok=tjess9fL)
For the past week, a small crew from the Royal Ontario Museum’s palaeontology division has been excavating a Triceratops site on private ranchland in Harding County, South Dakota.
Introducing Acheroraptor temertyorum
![Left: Two Acheroraptor feeding at a Triceratops carcass as Tyrannosaurus rex approaches. Courtesy of Julius Csotonyi. (cropped) Right: Acheroraptor temertyorum recreation. By Emily Willoughby, www.emilywilloughby.com [CC-BY-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Illustrations of dinosaurs in landscape.](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/acheroraptor-temertyorum_jcesar.jpg?itok=3MotNn-g)
ROM Scientists Reveal New “Raptor” Dinosaur Discovery!
Keaton Smith's ROM Inspiration
![Keaton Smith posing in front of a dinosaur at the ROM Keaton Smith at the ROM © Deborah Smith](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/keaton-arseneau.jpg?itok=lJ7kwnA7)
This is a guest blog post by Keaton Smith, published by Jesika Arseneau...
New Acquisition: Late Triassic Araucarian Conifer
![ROM staff inspect one of our newest acquisitions. L - R: Palaeontology technicians Brian Iwama and Peter Fenton as well as Contract Assistant Curator, Dr. Linda Tsuji Inside the shipping room, inspecting a wooden crate](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/dscn1981_ps.jpg?itok=C6as8aIK)
Last week the museum acquired a Late Triassic Araucarian Conifer.
NEW Discovery: A Bone-headed Dinosaur the size of a Dog
A new species of bone-headed dinosaur, Acrotholus audeti, has just been announced by a team co-led by ROM paleontologist Dr. David Evans. The groundbreaking fossils are on display at the ROM until June.
ROM Curator Jean-Bernard Caron is a “Science Superstar” and “Big Thinker”
This week’s cover story in The Grid, a popular Toronto news and entertainment weekly, features “Big Thinkers… 10 young science superstars.” ...
ROM Research Colloquium: David Rudkin
![Pages from a puzzle-solver’s notebook – piecing eurypterids back together … on paper. Pages from a puzzle-solver’s notebook – piecing eurypterids back together … on paper.](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/rudkin_colloquium_blog_2013.jpg?itok=_79QW3VD)
The annual ROM Colloquium highlights recent discoveries by ROM curators and researchers.