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Article: Bone adventure: how a ROM paleontologist rediscovered a rare dinosaur at the museum.(Kids)
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- ROM Magazine
- Article date:
- December 22, 2007
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ROM paleontologist David Evans has found the ultimate skeleton in the closet. When he arrived to head up the ROM's dinosaur research program in July, one of his first tasks was to find a giant sauropod--the same long-necked kind of dinosaur that Fred drove at the quarry on the Flintstones. What no one expected was that Evans would find a skeleton of Barosaurus, one of the rarest North American sauropods, right here at the ROM.
The Museum already had three icons slated for the new gallery: T. rex, Triceratops, and Stegosaurus. A sauropod was the most obvious thing that was missing. Before long, the young paleontologist was able to source a good specimen in Wyoming. But on ...
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