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 first part of a two-episode series, we're headed to the Valley of Mexico to explore one of the world's greatest - and...
Conifers - trees with cones and needles - are important to cultures across the globe. This time of year many of us are bringing...
At the same time the first modern geologists and biologists were arguing about the meaning of the distant past, Victorian architects were engaging in...