Parks & Recs
February 6, 2024
Most Dinosaur Tracks Are Hidden on Private Land. At Government Canyon, You Can Stroll Alongside Them.
Hikers at this San Antonio preserve peer down at 110-million-year-old footprints.
Dinosaurs
Working Life
January 23, 2024
A Texas Dinosaur Sculptor Talks About Her Jurassic Dream Job
'Everyone wants a T. Rex,’ says Casandra Sowards, lead sculptor at Allen's Billings Productions, a leading maker of animatronic dinosaurs.
Best Thing in Texas
November 14, 2023
A Guy in Grapevine Had the Best Hike Ever: He Discovered a New Dinosaur.
Roughly the weight of a standard schnauzer, the plant-eating dino roamed North Texas 96 million years ago.
Meanwhile, in Texas
October 14, 2022
Meanwhile, in Texas: Drought Revealed Previously Unseen Dinosaur Tracks
Plus, a man broke into an animal shelter and released more than 150 dogs, and a police officer completed an arrested driver’s food delivery.
News & Politics
July 9, 2020
Texas Scientists Discover That a Dinosaur Made Famous by ‘Jurassic Park’ Was Even More Formidable Than They Thought
Working together with the Navajo Nation—the first discoverers of dilophosaurus—UT paleontologists are revising our understanding of the “best-known worst-known” dinosaur.
Travel & Outdoors
February 2, 2018
Remember the Alamosaurus! Where to Discover Dinosaurs in Texas
Inspired by the latest fossil findings? Follow the dino trail and see real tracks or go hands-on at one of the state’s many museum exhibits.
The Daily Post
April 8, 2015
A Five-Year-Old Boy Discovered a 100-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Behind a Mansfield Supermarket
Good work, li’l guy.
June 20, 2012
How Some Dino Bones Brought Mongolia and Texas Together
A seventy-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus bataar skeleton finds itself at the center of a legal battle involving a Dallas auction house, a Houston lawyer, and the president of Mongolia.
Web Exclusive
April 30, 2012
Texas Gets Prehistoric With Two New Fossil Halls
After years of exporting prized dinosaur fossils to some of the world’s best museums, the state will be getting two huge exhibit halls, in Dallas and Houston.
The Culture
April 16, 2012
What about Those Dinosaurs in “The Tree of Life”?
One of the most talked-about scenes in Terrence Malick's Oscar-nominated film finally explained.
April 11, 2012
Creationism Among the Dinosaur Footprints in Glen Rose
Is Glen Rose, famed for its fossilized dinosaur tracks in the Paluxy River, becoming a hotbed of creationism? A Texas Observer story says yes.
News & Politics
August 31, 1992
Cretaceous Crash
The dinosaurs had been doing just fine for 150 million years. All of a sudden …
News & Politics
August 31, 1992
Dem Bones
A Texas scientist ruffled some feathers when he said he had found the first bird.
News & Politics
February 1, 1992
Boneyard
Ken Barnes wants to keep his dinosaur fossils near home.
September 1, 1983
Texas, a Long, Long, Long, Long, Time Ago
When armadillos weighed three tons and the long horns were on dinosaurs.
News & Politics
November 1, 1982
The Dinosaur Darwin Missed
Side by side near a Texas river are dinosaur tracks and what appear to be the marks of a human foot—proof, in the creationist mind, that evolution is bunk.