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Belle découverte dans les schistes de Burgess: un ver oscillant sur ses « pattes »
By Jean-Bernard Caron, Conservateur principal de paléontologie des invertébrés, Musée royal de l’Ontario Le ROM annonce aujourd’hui la découverte d’une espèce étonnante sur le site mondialement connu des schistes de Burgess dans le Parc national Yoho. La créature a été baptisée
Summerasaurus Part I: Digging for Dinos
Mark Farmer recently returned from an expedition to the far end of southern Alberta with Dr. David Evans, Associate Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the ROM, in search of dinosaurs! Join us over the course of the next month as Mark and Dr. Evans put up their notes from the field, detailing
Infoflash rorqual bleu: De Trenton avec amour
Comment expédie-t-on un cœur de rorqual bleu ? Quiconque a déjà offert un cadeau ou expédié un colis connaît bien les joies de l’emballage. Question: comment expédie-t-on le cœur d’un rorqual bleu ? VIDÉO en anglais De Trenton avec amour : Emballage du cœur d’un rorqual bleu
Farms, Cities, Animals, and the Museum
Guest blog by Environmental Visual Communication student Teghan Dodds Goats are not something you’d expect to see within the confines of the city, and especially not on Toronto’s Bloor Street with its upscale shops and prestigious historical buildings. Yet, cities depend on agricultural
“Origins of Chintz,” The Exhibit: A Look Back to 1970
“Chintz… the exotic fabric from India that caught Europe’s fancy… So popular it was banned in England and France… Revolutionized Europe’s textile printing industry.” Thus exclaimed the brochure that accompanied the ROM’s landmark exhibition, ‘The Origins of Chintz’, which opened
Chocolate – The Food of the Gods
Following up on our last blog – not all chocolate is the bitter kind born of child labour and greedy corporations. ChocoSol Traders is a small, ecological and inter-community initiative between farmers in Chiapas, Mexico, sustainable technologists based out of Oaxaca City, Mexico and horizontal
NASA’s Continued Curiosity for Life on Mars
By Brent Hyde, Minerology Technician Did life ever exist on the red planet? This is a question NASA has been trying to answer for more than 40 years. In the next couple of years, NASA hopes to get some answers. In late November of this year, NASA will be launching its latest and greatest rover to
#ThrowbackThursday: A Warm Memory
In September, 1971, the ROM opened the landmark exhibition Keep Me Warm One Night, a kaleidoscopic display of over 500 pieces of Canadian handweaving. It was the culmination of decades of pioneering research and collecting by the ROM curatorial powerhouse duo 'Burnham and Burnham’, aka
Next Stop Mars! New NASA Rover Launched
By Brendt Hyde, Mineralogy Technician Curiosity starts its journey towards Mars! (Image Credit NASA/Scott Andrews/Canon) On November 26, 2011 at 10:02 am EST, NASA successfully launched its next rover, Curiosity, towards Mars. As discussed on the ROM Blog in November, Curiosity will help to
Les règles de la taxonomie: nommer les espèces
Pourquoi les conservateurs du ROM devraient-ils s’intéresser à un projet visant à créer une organisation qui réglementerait la désignation des espèces? Nommer les choses qui l’entourent est un besoin fondamental de l’être humain et du langage. Mais nous n’en restons pas là : nous