In honor of the Texas Memorial Museum's 83rd birthday, and on a less uplifting note, to draw attention to the dire financial situation it's currently experiencing, please enjoy this re-release combining my two episodes on Texan paleontology and reconstructing behavior from fossils. The stories featured here center on the museum and its invaluable collections, and if you're inspired to make your voice heard, there's a petition circulating on Change.org. If you're a Texas voter, you have an even better opportunity to make your voice heard by contacting your legislature and urging them to support one of the most important institutions for preserving and celebrating the natural heritage of the Lone Star State.
In this episode, we continue or exploration of sites in Texas' Hill Country that illustrate how fossils can reveal the behavior of extinct species....
The Hill Country of central Texas is rich in fossils from the age of dinosaurs to the Ice Ages, and these fossils have been...
During the most recent Ice Age, floods of an almost unimaginable size swept across northwestern North America, changing the face of the landscape, stoking...