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I came out of the #RoyalOntarioMuseum last Saturday to find this crew playing a bright set on the sidewalk outside.
They are the #TrashPandaBrass and they’re great!
As we walked away I said to a friend, “and that’s why I got a trombone.”I then bought their EP (Opposable Thumbs) and have listened to it … many times.
#Toronto #LGBTQ2IA #music #PlayItLoud #Brass #Mellophone #Trombone #Sousaphone #TrashPandas #raccoon #TorontoMascot
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The Tyee: Life-Saving Love: The Story of Farley Mowat and Claire Wheeler https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2023/11/21/Life-Saving-Love-Farley-Mowat-Claire-Wheeler/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @[email protected] #FarleyandClaire:ALoveStory #HappyAdventuresailboat #SaturdayNightmagazine #DavidSuzukiInstitute #FarleyandClaireMowat #GabrielGarcíaMárquez #McMasterUniversity #RoyalOntarioMuseum #Keewatinterritory #FarleyMowatInuit #ThomasMcIlwraith #UnholyOrdersbook #PeopleoftheDeer #St-PierreIsland #GreystoneBooks
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The Tyee: Life-Saving Love: The Story of Farley Mowat and Claire Wheeler https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2023/11/21/Life-Saving-Love-Farley-Mowat-Claire-Wheeler/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @[email protected] #FarleyandClaire:ALoveStory #HappyAdventuresailboat #SaturdayNightmagazine #DavidSuzukiInstitute #FarleyandClaireMowat #GabrielGarcíaMárquez #McMasterUniversity #RoyalOntarioMuseum #Keewatinterritory #FarleyMowatInuit #ThomasMcIlwraith #UnholyOrdersbook #PeopleoftheDeer #St-PierreIsland #GreystoneBooks
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The Tyee: Life-Saving Love: The Story of Farley Mowat and Claire Wheeler https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2023/11/21/Life-Saving-Love-Farley-Mowat-Claire-Wheeler/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @[email protected] #FarleyandClaire:ALoveStory #HappyAdventuresailboat #SaturdayNightmagazine #DavidSuzukiInstitute #FarleyandClaireMowat #GabrielGarcíaMárquez #McMasterUniversity #RoyalOntarioMuseum #Keewatinterritory #FarleyMowatInuit #ThomasMcIlwraith #UnholyOrdersbook #PeopleoftheDeer #St-PierreIsland #GreystoneBooks
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The Tyee: Life-Saving Love: The Story of Farley Mowat and Claire Wheeler https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2023/11/21/Life-Saving-Love-Farley-Mowat-Claire-Wheeler/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @[email protected] #FarleyandClaire:ALoveStory #HappyAdventuresailboat #SaturdayNightmagazine #DavidSuzukiInstitute #FarleyandClaireMowat #GabrielGarcíaMárquez #McMasterUniversity #RoyalOntarioMuseum #Keewatinterritory #FarleyMowatInuit #ThomasMcIlwraith #UnholyOrdersbook #PeopleoftheDeer #St-PierreIsland #GreystoneBooks
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The Tyee: Life-Saving Love: The Story of Farley Mowat and Claire Wheeler https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2023/11/21/Life-Saving-Love-Farley-Mowat-Claire-Wheeler/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @[email protected] #FarleyandClaire:ALoveStory #HappyAdventuresailboat #SaturdayNightmagazine #DavidSuzukiInstitute #FarleyandClaireMowat #GabrielGarcíaMárquez #McMasterUniversity #RoyalOntarioMuseum #Keewatinterritory #FarleyMowatInuit #ThomasMcIlwraith #UnholyOrdersbook #PeopleoftheDeer #St-PierreIsland #GreystoneBooks
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#FossilAdventCalendar Day 14
This #fossil of Albertonia cupidinia, from Wapiti Lake, #BritishColumbia 🇨🇦 and displayed in the #RoyalOntarioMuseum, comes from an important time in fish #evolution. It was during the #Triassic Period, as dinosaurs and mammals were getting their start on land, that #ray-finned fish (the group that dominates our planet's #waters today) were really starting to take off. Its large fins supported by thin bony rays show that Albertonia was was part of this #radiation.
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#FossilAdventCalendar Day 13
#TerrestrialTuesday#BritishColumbia is full of #lagerstätten (sites of exceptional #fossil #preservation), including the sites of the #Eocene #Okanagan. Here, a series of #ancient #lakes preserve #fossils of #leaves, #insects, and the oldest #salmon. Rarest of all are #arachnids: this fossil of the #spider Palaeoperenethis thaleri in the #RoyalOntarioMuseum is the only one of its kind, but it's #preserved well enough to identify it as a relative of fishing #spiders
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#FossilAdventCalendar Day 12
#MarineLifeMonday#BritishColumbia's 🇨🇦 #BurgessShale is one of our planet's most important important (and beautiful) #fossil sites. Sitting high in #BC's #RockyMountains, it's a window into the early evolution of #animals. Among its weird wonders is Hallucigenia (seen here in fossil and sculpture form at the #RoyalOntarioMuseum), a distant relative of #arthropods so unlike anything alive today that for years it was reconstructed upside down and backwards.
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#FossilAdventCalendar Day 6
#TerrestrialTuesdayThis #fossil, Erpetonyx aresnaultorum from the #RoyalOntarioMuseum, may look a bit like a #lizard, but it's something else entirely. Uncovered from the #Carboniferous #EgmontBay Formation on #PrinceEdwardIsland 🇨🇦, it's one of the oldest #parareptiles, a lineage of #animals related to but distinct from true #reptiles. While they were among the first vertebrates to transition to life on land, parareptiles went #extinct over 200 million years ago.
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#FossilAdventCalendar Day 5
#MarineLifeMondayMost #fish species alive today, from #salmon to #guppies, belong to a single group. In the #Devonian, though, many lineages were abundant. #Quebec's 🇨🇦 #ParcNationalDeMiguasha provides a glimpse of this #biodiversity, which includes #lungfish such as Scaumenacia curta, shown here in the #RoyalOntarioMuseum. Their lobed fins contain many of the same #bones as our arms, evidence that lungfish are much more closely related to us than to most other fish.
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#FossilAdventCalendar Day 4
The oddest and - at over 560 million years in age - oldest #fossil featured in this #AdventCalendar is Fractofusus misrai from #Newfoundland 🇨🇦. This specimen in the #RoyalOntarioMuseum is from #MistakenPoint, one of the sites preserving the #Ediacaran #biota, the term for some of our planet's oldest #multicellular #fossils. Lots of questions remain about these ancient enigmas, among them, were #Ediacarans #animals or members of a different branch of the tree of life?
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#FossilAdventCalendar Day 3
We're jumping to the #Maritimes today to celebrate one of #Canada's 🇨🇦 most important #fossil sites. #NovaScotia's #JogginsFossilCliffs are a window into the #Carboniferous, a period that saw the spread of a new #biome: #forests. This #fossilized #tree on display at the #RoyalOntarioMuseum is a #lycopsid, a super-sized relative of living #ClubMosses that, along with #cycads, #ferns, and early relatives of #seed #plants, made up the #flora of the #Joggins #forest.
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#FossilAdventCalendar Day 3
We're jumping to the #Maritimes today to celebrate one of #Canada's 🇨🇦 most important #fossil sites. #NovaScotia's #JogginsFossilCliffs are a window into the #Carboniferous, a period that saw the spread of a new #biome: #forests. This #fossilized #tree on display at the #RoyalOntarioMuseum is a #lycopsid, a super-sized relative of living #ClubMosses that, along with #cycads, #ferns, and early relatives of #seed #plants, made up the #flora of the #Joggins #forest.
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#FossilAdventCalendar Day 3
We're jumping to the #Maritimes today to celebrate one of #Canada's 🇨🇦 most important #fossil sites. #NovaScotia's #JogginsFossilCliffs are a window into the #Carboniferous, a period that saw the spread of a new #biome: #forests. This #fossilized #tree on display at the #RoyalOntarioMuseum is a #lycopsid, a super-sized relative of living #ClubMosses that, along with #cycads, #ferns, and early relatives of #seed #plants, made up the #flora of the #Joggins #forest.
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#FossilAdventCalendar Day 3
We're jumping to the #Maritimes today to celebrate one of #Canada's 🇨🇦 most important #fossil sites. #NovaScotia's #JogginsFossilCliffs are a window into the #Carboniferous, a period that saw the spread of a new #biome: #forests. This #fossilized #tree on display at the #RoyalOntarioMuseum is a #lycopsid, a super-sized relative of living #ClubMosses that, along with #cycads, #ferns, and early relatives of #seed #plants, made up the #flora of the #Joggins #forest.
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#FossilAdventCalendar Day 3
We're jumping to the #Maritimes today to celebrate one of #Canada's 🇨🇦 most important #fossil sites. #NovaScotia's #JogginsFossilCliffs are a window into the #Carboniferous, a period that saw the spread of a new #biome: #forests. This #fossilized #tree on display at the #RoyalOntarioMuseum is a #lycopsid, a super-sized relative of living #ClubMosses that, along with #cycads, #ferns, and early relatives of #seed #plants, made up the #flora of the #Joggins #forest.
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#FossilAdventCalendar Day 2
#FossilFridayHeading north along #Ontario's 🇨🇦 #NiagaraEscarpment brings us to the #BrucePeninsula, where these #Silurian #scorpions were found. Displayed in and named by scientists at the #RoyalOntarioMuseum, Eramoscorpius brucensis lived in the #ocean, but its relatives were among the first #animals on land. Its sturdy legs and the locality at which these #fossils were found hint that this #marine #scorpion may have already been venturing onto #beaches to #molt.
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#FossilAdventCalendar Day 1
We begin our journey north in #Ontario, #Canada 🇨🇦 with the #Welland #mastodon (Mammut americanum) unearthed close to #NiagaraFalls and exhibited in the #RoyalOntarioMuseum. Like all #proboscideans - the group of #mammals that also includes #elephants - #mastodons had #tusks, but one is missing from this individual. The fact that the socket for its left tusk is closed suggests that this was a birth defect rather than the result of injury or disease.
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To whet your appetite for the #FossilAdventCalendar, here are some fossils from the #RoyalSaskatchewanMuseum and #RoyalOntarioMuseum that December just has too few days to be able to include (but never fear, both #museums will be well represented over the next few weeks). Check back tomorrow for the official start of the calendar!
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I don’t wish to be buried. But if I *am* buried, I hope someone will tuck a perfect little glazed table set with my favorite meal in my tomb along with my bones. (ancient Chinese grave goods, from the #royalontariomuseum ) #foodhistory #fishdinner #chinesehistory
