Author Archive: royal
Monthly Archive: December roya
World-renowned Nature Photography Competition Announces 2017 Wildlife Photographer of the Year Winner
![Memorial to a species Brent Stirton, South Africa Winner, Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2017 Photo of Rhino with it's horn removed.](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/memorial_to_a_species_c_brent_stirton_-_wildlife_photographer_of_the_year.png?itok=0uDX1yL5)
South African photographer Brent Stirton was named Wildlife Photographer of the Year by a panel of international judges for his image Memorial to a Species. Mr. Stirton’s winning image of a black rhino, killed by poachers in South Africa’s Hluhluwe Imfolozi Park, was chosen from among almost 50,000 submissions from around the world.
Early Tourist Photography at Niagara Falls
![Unknown Photographer, (L-R) B. Whitmore, T. Moore, T. Watson, and F. Whitmore on an electric car in front of a backdrop, 1905, tintype, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Courtesy of Conrad Biernacki and Brian Musselwhite. On view in the ROM’s The Family Camera until October 29, 2017. Black and white tintype photo of four men sitting on a cart in front of Niagara Falls](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/tintype-niagara.png?itok=ApNGeG8-)
By Victoria Abel, M.A.
Visiting Zuul
![David Evans and Victoria Arbour inspecting the <em>Zuul</em> belly block. Photo of two people looking at a big block containing rock and a dinosaur fossil](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/meeting-zuul.jpg?itok=-jlgntxn)
Team Zuul had a chance to go check out progress on the belly block at Research Casting International a few weeks ago.
Erasing Mankind’s Heritage: the Monuments of Palmyra and their Devastation
![bomb going off in desert.](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/destruction_3.png?itok=2kfOoO9G)
Taking off Zuul’s jacket
Introducing the Zuul Preparation Blog Series: Robin Sissons is a technician at Research Casting International, as well as a scientist with an MSc from the University of Alberta on ankylosaurs. Robin will be working on preparing Zuul’s belly from its encasing rock over the next few years. Stay tuned for updates from Robin on her progress as she works on this 15 000 kg block of rock and fossil!
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,
Tokummia, a new fossil species from the Burgess Shale traces origin of ants, millipedes and lobsters.
![Cédric Aria cutting into the fossiliferous beds at Marble Canyon quarry at Kootenay National Park during the summer 2014 fieldwork season. Tokummia katalepsisis named after Tokumm creek, which flows through Marble Canyon, visible near the base of the mountain to the right of this picture near the middle, with the species name katalepsis means “seizing” in Greek. Image credit: Jean-Bernard Caron © Royal Ontario Museum Students working at fossil site on the mountain side.](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/cedric_2014-07-29_12.07.57.jpg?itok=6ZrVMJmg)
Guest Blog by Cédric Aria, recent PhD graduate from Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary, UofT, who was based at the ROM. Currently a post-doctoral researcher at the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology.
When Art Meets Fashion: COS x Agnes Martin
![COS x Agnes Martin, Guggenheim 2016. Image shot at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Image courtesy of COS. Two male models posing against a grey background](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/guggenheim-mens.jpg?itok=E6fCUacH)
COS × AGNES MARTIN GUGGENHEIM 2016: Martin menswear is added to the ROM collection
By Dr. Alexandra Palmer and Clara Puton
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
Mystery of conical fossils solved, after 175 years
![A photo of me holding a fossil at Marble Canyon, Kootenay National Park in 2014. Student holding shale slabs with fossils.](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/joseph-moysiuk_fieldwork.jpg?itok=vvDFFhZE)
My name is Joe Moysiuk, I am a 20-year-old undergraduate student at the University of Toronto enrolled in both the departments of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Earth Sciences. I am excited to announce that a research paper which I am lead author of, titled Hyoliths are Palaeozoic lophophorates, has recently been published by the journal Nature This paper was based primarily on newly discovered fossils housed in the ROM’s invertebrate palaeontology collections.