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The location of the state of Texas. Paleontology in Texas refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of Texas. Author Marian Murray has said that "Texas is as big for fossils as it is for everything else." [1] Some of the most important fossil finds in United States history have come from Texas.
Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. [1] This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (), palynomorphs and chemical residues.
Michael R. Waters from Texas A&M University along with a group of graduate and undergraduate students began excavating the Debra L. Friedkin Site in Bell County, Texas in 2006. The site is located 250 metres (820 ft) downstream along Buttermilk Creek from the Gault site ; a Paleo-Indian site excavated in 1998 and found to have deeply stratified ...
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Bela – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature †Belosaepia †Belosepia; Bison †Bison antiquus; Mounted fossilized skeleton of the Pleistocene Bison latifrons, or long-horned bison †Bison latifrons; Bittiolum – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature ...
Evidence from the study of brain endocasts of extant and extinct mammals, indicative of cortical expansion in the areas of the brain involved in producing cognitive functions that began early on during the primate evolution, is presented by Melchionna et al. (2025), who argue that selection for complex cognition likely drove the evolution of primate brains.
The printed word does not fully do justice to the earth-shattering discoveries. At a place called the Gault Site, about an hour north of Austin, archaeologists have pushed back the earliest dates ...
6th century B.C. — The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Xenophanes of Colophon argues that fossils of marine organisms show that dry land was once under water. [1]4th century B.C. — Aristotle posits that the stoniness of fossils is caused by vaporous exhalations.