Lone Star Dinosaurs

Lone Star Dinosaurs is a book written by

The book's subject material was used as the basis for an exhibit opened on November 3, 1995, at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History. The exhibit included paintings, bones exhumed from Texas, and interactive video components.^[1] Subsequent versions of the exhibit were also shown at other museums throughout the following year.^[2]

Content

The book begins by discussing the history of paleontology in Texas and several of the more renowned academic researchers in the field, including Robert T. Hill, and the various types of dinosaurs discovered in the Texas strata, along with a more general look at paleontological finds around the world. This chapter is followed by three others that each focus on a different period of evolutionary history for Texas dinosaurs.^[3] A feature of the book are the stories of how each species' fossil was discovered by non-scientists visiting each region, with an often noted discovery involving a 7-year-old boy in 1988 finding an exposed Tenontosaurus skull alongside a riverbank.^[4]

The first chapter looks into the late

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