Paleontology

HMNS exhibit could change the way you think about dinosaurs

9 Feb 2012

HMNS exhibit could change the way you think about dinosaurs Houston Chronicle Copyright 2012 Houston Chronicle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 08:57 p.m., Wednesday, February 8, 2012 Out of visitors' sight at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, a prehistoric menagerie is emerging from pine crates stamped "Fragile ...

Canadian researcher hails discovery as new 'way to approach paleontology'

9 Feb 2012

Hailed as a "first ever" discovery in dinosaur science, a Canadian paleontologist has used fossilized skin rather than bone to differentiate between two species of hadrosaurs — also known as duck-billed dinosaurs — from Alberta and Mongolia.

Can you dig it? New dinosaur exhibit opening next summer

9 Feb 2012

You don't mess with Texas, and you don't mess with Texan dinosaurs! The Houston Museum of Natural Science is putting the final touches on its new paleontology hall. It's the size of a football field.