For the last 20 years, the Heritage Museum of the Texas Hill Country has been trying to protect and preserve over 200 dinosaur footprints and 28 separate trackways. Historically, the Dinosaurs roamed the hill country over 110 million years ago!
A mega shark that lived 300 million years ago would have made today's great whites look like shrimps, according to fossils of the beast unearthed in Jacksboro, Texas. Scientists have dubbed the newfound fossils the "Texas supershark," and the name is fitting: These supersharks were enormous:...
Fossil site: Texas (USA) At Senckenberg: cast (Original at the University of Texas, Austin/USA) The reconstruction of the Quetzalcoatlus in the Senckenberg Museum is based on the original specimens, which are in the collections of the University of Texas at Austin, USA. The fossils found are...
A study led by The University of Texas at Austin is providing a glimpse into dinosaur and bird diversity in Patagonia during the Late Cretaceous, just before the non-avian dinosaurs went extinct. The fossils represent the first record of theropods - a dinosaur group that includes both modern bi...
Eryops fossils have been established in Texas, USA, North America. In 1887 Eryops was named by E. D. Cope Scientific Classification:Kingdom: AnimaliaPhylum: ChordataClass: AmphibiaOrder: TemnospondyliSuborder: EuskeliaSuperfamily: Eryopoidea
Analyzes one of the southernmost North American late Campanian dinosaur assemblages collected from the upper Aguja Formation in Texas' Big Bend National Park. Type of dinosaur fossils found; Evidence supporting the contemporaneous occurrence of southern and northern terrestrial vertebrae provinces; Connection...
(around 85–75 million years old), fossil skull of an early off-shoot of the dinosaurs that went on to become the birds we know today. Past fossils of early birds have not had such well-preserved skulls and so palaeontologists may have underestimated their brain size. Could these early-...
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Looks at the theory that birds are descended from certain dinosaurs. Looking at examples of feathered dinosaur fossils, the film talks to scientists working in this controversial area. Producer Andrew Thompson Editor David Fairhead See all filmmakers & crew (2) ...
Dinosaurs in Your Garden(Season 35, Episode 14) TV Episode|Documentary Edit pageAdd to list Looks at the theory that birds are descended from certain dinosaurs. Looking at examples of feathered dinosaur fossils, the film talks to scientists working in this controversial area. ...