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Monthly Archive: December Rese
Kissing the Cod!
![A view of the blue whale's baleen, which lines the upper jaws. | Image by Jacqueline Waters © Royal Ontario Museum A close up shot of the blue whales baleen.](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/bluewhale_day5-1-2.jpg?itok=p4Rh-n2w)
Environmental communicator Jacqueline Waters shares more of her experience on the ground with the ROM team working to recover a blue whale carcass in NL.
My first day in Trout River, Newfoundland: ROM biologists arrive, town is curious
![Blue whale remains washed up on the shore at Trout River, NL. | Image by Jacqueline Waters © Royal Ontario Museum A blue whale carcass lies upside down in the water near a rocky shoreline.](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/bluewhale_day1-1.jpg?itok=3Zf1rW-K)
Jacqueline Waters shares her impressions from Day 1 of the ROM's efforts to recover a Blue whale specimen near Trout River, NL.
BREAKING: Royal Ontario Museum to recover two rare Northwest Atlantic blue whales
![Blue Whale skeleton on display in the Beaty Biodiversity Museum, BC. Photo by alans1948 via Flickr Creative Commons. Cropped. https://flic.kr/p/cR1hpj The blue whale skeleton hangs in the atrium at the Beaty Museum.](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/7774487928_8e5af1d68e_b.jpg?itok=b8AuHWUD)
The ROM Biodiversity will send a crew to salvage two blue whales that washed ashore on the coast of Newfoundland last week.
Dr. Burton Lim's Yellow Shouldered Bat
A new species of Bat was recently named after our very own Dr. Burton Lim!
ROM Fieldtrip: Red Knot migration at San Antonio Oeste, Argentina
![The landscape in Argentina](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/red2_new.jpg?itok=PpL3SZb2)
A team bands Red Knots to assess their physical condition and survival rate as the birds begin their annual migration.
The ROM ‘Minoan’ Goddess: The Minoan Relations
![The ROM 'Minoan' Goddess Detail of the head of the ROM 'Minoan' Goddess](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/katec_thumbnail_0.jpg?itok=QFfhH77L)
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.
The ROM ‘Minoan’ Goddess: the Suspect Sisters (and brothers)
![The ROM 'Minoan' Goddess Detail of the head of the ROM 'Minoan' Goddess](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/katec_thumbnail.jpg?itok=jhyS6nTk)
The ROM Goddess is just one of the ‘Minoan’ figurines in several museums sometimes thought to be fake. These two installments of the ROM Minoan Goddess project introduce you to some of the suspected (although not definitively proven) fake figurines, and the genuine Minoan objects that may have inspired them.
Asian Carps and GLMRIS Canadian Information Session
![Invasive Species poster from the Ministry of Natural Resources and GLIMRIS panel at the Information Centre (Photo by Henry H.C. Choong) A poster containing information about invasive species produced by the Ministry of Natural Resources and GLIMRIS](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/photo_1_resized.jpg?itok=9uONJsa8)
Henry H.C. Choong shares his insight into a recent, important information session regarding the threat of invasive species in the Great Lakes basin.
Butterflies
![Light table set-up photo studio](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/_dsc5275.jpg?itok=qZtNQbeM)
In celebration of the vernal equinox and the upcoming ROM publication of a field guide of butterflies of Ontario, we'd like to show you some beautiful butterfly specimens.
For the Adventuresome: Traversing Back in Time with Dr. Ed Keall
![Closeup of a document explaining how to reach the excavation site Closeup view of a document](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/qy_blog_tmbnail_2.jpg?itok=i0B9t7PV)
"Team Keall"--University of Toronto students Daira Szostak and Nicole Marcogliese--have been working on the archives of ROM archaeologist Ed Keall. Here, Daira shares some of the fascinating records they've found related to the ROM's excavations at Qal'eh-i Yazdigird in the 1970s.