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Bone adventure: how a ROM paleontologist rediscovered a rare dinosaur at the museum.(Kids)
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December 22, 2007
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2007 Royal Ontario Museum Governors. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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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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