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Habitat the Game Update for #Bioblitz150
The Rouge National Urban Park Bioblitz is coming up this weekend (June 24- 25, 2017), and to celebrate we're announcing a special, limited edition collectible location pin for Habitat the Game players who visit the area around the Rouge Valley Conservation Centre throughout the blitz,
Life in Toronto – Rouge Bioblitz 2012
submitted by the ROM Bioblitz Team The term BioBlitz has been floating around since the late 1990’s. It was popularized by the US National Park Service and in 1998 by famous Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson. A BioBlitz is a survey of all life within a given area during an intense 24hr period.
Learning science through Hip Hop: Interview with Baba Brinkman
Understanding evolution is critical to understanding life on earth. Imagine teaching calculus before algebra-- to understand biology, we must be aware of life on Earth and its constant changing form. Baba Brinkman, upcoming ROM guest and Canadian MC, has worked extensively to craft cerebral rap
Five Answers to WP "Y?"
Guest Blog written by Environmental Visual Communication student Jessica Gordon The tradition of taking pictures of nature is a long one. It can be traced back to 1906 when National Geographic featured its first ever wildlife photos. In 1963 Animals was launched, which would eventually become BBC
Profile: Canada's Astronaut
Chris Hadfield sits down with ROM M agazine and talks space, dinos, and risk. We’re eager to hear about your favourite objects and places at the ROM, but we don’t get to chat with astronauts very often, so we’re hoping to ask a few questions about your space travels first… Thinking back
Eight-legged and Adorable
Guest blog written by 2018 Environmental Visual Communication student Mya Van Woudenberg. Let me paint you a picture of a spectacular critter. Staring up at you is an adorable little animal precious enough that it could fit in your hand. You carefully pick him up, and his tiny feet tickle your
WPY- The Proof is in the Picture
Guest Blog written by Environmental Visual Communication student Kendra Marjerrison Looking out the eight-foot-high windows of the Tundra Buggy traversing Wapusk National Park, Don Gutoski waited for signs of life. The guide noticed it first- a red fox moving across the snowy expanse of tundra.
ROM for the Holidays: more than just family fun
As a kid, every year starting in early December I would pre-gloat daily to my younger sister about all the wonderful gifts I was doubtless going to receive from Santa. Each morning I would check my handwritten Christmas list on the fridge, hoping to spot a subtle indication--such as perhaps a tiny
"Of Angling, and the Art thereof": Fish Tails and Fish Tales
“Of Angling, and the Art thereof I sing, What kinde of Tooles it doth behoue to haue; And with what pleasing bayt a man may bring The Fish to bite within the watry waue.” Fishing has long been pursued to provide food for families and communities, but as early as the 17th century when I. D.
ROM Research: Detailing Wendiceratops
David Evans and Michael Ryan reveal a spectacular new species of ceratopsian, Wendiceratops was approximately 6 metres from nose to tail and weighed more than a ton (2,000 lbs). Guest blog by Shiona M. Mackenzie. Fossils collected from a bonebed in southern Alberta during the summers of 2011