Jaw-dropping 113-million-year-old dinosaur tracks find new Texas home

Paleontologist Roland T. Bird discovered the fossilized dinosaur tracks near Glen Rose, Texas back in the 1930s. One slab of stone was sent to the American Museum of Natural History in New York and the second was maintained in the Lone Star State.

Jaw-dropping 113-million-year-old dinosaur tracks find new Texas home. Paleontologist Roland T. Bird discovered the fossilized dinosaur tracks near Glen Rose, Texas back in the 1930s. One slab of stone was sent to the American Museum of Natural History in New York and the second was maintained in the Lone Star State. Dust off your encyclopedic dinosaur knowledge, y'all: A tyrannosaurus-sized dinosaur attraction is en route to the Lone Star State. The Texas Science & Natural History Museum, hosted on campus at the University of Texas at Austin, is kicking off a massive, multimillion-dollar endeavor to preserve and display some of Texas' most famous fossilized dinosaur discoveries. The museum is slated to begin construction on its new Sarah and Ernest Butler Dinosaur Trackways Building this summer, with the crown jewel display en tow: a 113...