Summer is coming to an end, so I took a day to visit the Royal Ontario Museum. I've been wanting to go all summer because of the special Ultimate Dinosaurs exhibit, which showcases a bunch of newly discovered dinosaurs. By newly discovered I mean dinosaurs that have been discovered in around the last 20 years or so?
Cool sculptures
Bronzong!!
Huge mural and sculptures
Another mural
Pretty cool Japanese helmets
Samurai armour!
Totem pole that goes up the staircase
Alomomola!? Nope, just an ocean sunfish
It was really cool to have all these animals hanging from the ceiling
Japanese spider crab. I remember doing a facebook quiz called What kind of crab are you? I was a Japanese spider crab ^^
VILEPLUME! Nope, just a rafflesia flower
For some reason I find flightless birds scary.. Especially cassowaries.
Riot shield?!
Qwilfish!?
Bugs !
Rodents!
Skulls of deer, moose etc
A couple live Madagascar hissing cockroaches
More insects. I think collections like these are really cool
They had a live leafcutter ant colony living in a bunch of tubes at the zoo. You could actually see them carrying the leaves around
Rocks and minerals.
Some fluorescent rocks
Finally got to the regular fossils exhibit. Really cool!
I was surprised how small the stegosaurus' head was
Duck billed dinosaurs
Ankylosaurus skull and tail club. Wow!
Trying out the panorama photo app on my phone.
Archelon! It was actually really big
Some marine reptiles (they weren't considered "true" dinosaurs)
This fish was huge! And scary!
Look at those teeth!
T-Rex skeleton
A collection of ceratopsian skulls
Protoceratops!
Pachycephalosaurus! Rampardos!
Trying to explain how dinosaurs are related to birds.
Archeops!?
Ancient mammal skeletons. I believe the skulls on the right are ancestors of rhinos.
Glyptodon, ancient armadillos
Megathurium skeleton an ancient sloth
"Whaaaat?"
Huge scary bird skull
Mammoth and deer
In the Ultimate Dinosaurs exhibit
Spinosaurus, the largest theropod
Carcharodontosaurus skull
Took another picture of the skull, just with these people to reference the size of the skull
What a brave kid!! lol
Rapetosaurus.. Now I'm just being immature
This was around the size of a dog
The T-Rex skeleton had a bunch of interactive touch screens next to it.
It's like a live video camera of the skeleton, but with a digital rendering of the dinosaur. As the screen turned it would show whichever part of the dinosaur you pointed at. It was pretty cool
Some cool African masks
A huge mask
The mask covers the entire top half of the wearer's body!
These looked like ping pong paddles, but were actually mirrors
I didn't really understand this exhibit. Maybe I'm dumb or something.
From what I read, all I understood was that they were drawing music, Beethoven's symphonies.
They had a whole room full of drawings.
Each drawing was something like this.
Chairs, reminded me of Ikea
A horn, reminds me of Narnia. And it has legs!! AAHHH!!
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