Scientists have filled a major gap in the state's fossil record -- describing the first known Jurassic vertebrate fossils in Texas. The weathered bone fragments are from the limbs and backbone of a ...

Tenontosaurus fossils found in West Texas, the southernmost record of the dinosaur and a key to the Early Cretaceous.

A giant bone from North America's largest dinosaur was found in West Texas. Sul Ross State University geology students uncovered the fossil while on a research mission at Big Bend National Park in ...

Meditate at a Buddhist temple or flip through first-edition books at these little-known spots in Houston's suburbs.

DEL RIO, Texas (AP) -- Paleontologists say a fossil found in limestone along a remote South Texas riverbed could be that of a dolphin-like reptile that swam in ancient oceans some 90 million years ago ...

AUSTIN, Texas — For nearly two million years, a large cat with sharp front teeth lived in modern day North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. Known as the Homotherium, this creature inhabited Texas ...

HILLSBORO — Tens of millions of years ago, Texas was separated into two landmasses by a sea that stretched from the Gulf of Mexico all the way up through Canada. The division meant prehistoric Texas ...

A team led by scientists at The University of Texas at Austin has filled a major gap in the state’s fossil record – describing the first known Jurassic vertebrate fossils in Texas. The weathered bone ...