/tags/fossils Fossils en-US Copyright KUT News 2025 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 12:00:00 GMT /texasstandard/2025-03-18/west-texas-mammoth-tusk-discovery-sul-ross “If that’s a stump, it’s the weirdest stump I’ve ever seen.� Tue, 18 Mar 2025 12:00:00 GMT /texasstandard/2025-03-18/west-texas-mammoth-tusk-discovery-sul-ross Rhonda Fanning /energy-environment/2023-06-29/ut-austin-scientists-discover-first-known-jurassic-vertebrate-fossils-in-texas The fossilized remains are believed to be from an extinct marine reptile called a plesiosaur. The discovery of the fossils is solid evidence of Jurassic life in the state. Thu, 29 Jun 2023 18:05:22 GMT /energy-environment/2023-06-29/ut-austin-scientists-discover-first-known-jurassic-vertebrate-fossils-in-texas Thalía Menchaca /news/2023-03-29/newly-discovered-texas-beaver-species-named-after-buc-ees UT Jackson School of Geosciences researchers used a fossil collected around 80 years ago to identify and name A. buceei, a new species of beaver that was native to Texas about 15 million years ago. Wed, 29 Mar 2023 22:59:34 GMT /news/2023-03-29/newly-discovered-texas-beaver-species-named-after-buc-ees Chloe Young /texas/2019-07-29/paleontologists-identify-a-new-duck-billed-dinosaur-species-from-the-big-bend From Texas Standard:A dinosaur fossil has stumped scientists ever since they found it in Big Bend National Park in the early 1980s. Now, 30 years later,� Mon, 29 Jul 2019 18:23:36 GMT /texas/2019-07-29/paleontologists-identify-a-new-duck-billed-dinosaur-species-from-the-big-bend Jill Ament /energy-environment/2019-04-29/in-an-old-warehouse-in-north-austin-fossils-are-unraveling-the-mysteries-of-texas This is a story about 10-million-year-old bones. But it starts in the 1930s.That's when the federal government launched the Works Progress Administration,� Mon, 29 Apr 2019 10:01:00 GMT /energy-environment/2019-04-29/in-an-old-warehouse-in-north-austin-fossils-are-unraveling-the-mysteries-of-texas Mose Buchele