Big Bend Dinosaur Museum
A short trail also leads to a panoramic view of big bend s nearby geologic points of interest.
Big bend dinosaur museum. Tx 118 us 385 big bend national park tx 79834. The first display in the exhibit focuses on big bend s submerged past. The fossil discovery exhibit is the most significant addition to big bend national park s visitor services system in the past 50 years. Big flying dinosaur see 377 traveler reviews 87 candid photos and great deals for alpine tx at tripadvisor.
At the fossil discovery exhibit visitors can experience the changes to big bend s plants and animals and the world they lived in through 130 million years of geologic time. The warm shallow waters of the western interior seaway supported a diverse assemblage of marine organisms including mosasaurs and the tarpon like fish xiphactinus. Museum of the big bend. Thanks to the generosity of individuals corporations and foundations across the state this 1 4 million exhibit will give park visitors the opportunity to meet the past right where actual fossils were found.
The thick layers of limestone deposited at this time have also yielded fossils of ammonites sea turtles sharks sea urchins oysters and snails. Would have given it five stars but for that dogs aren t allowed on most of the trails and it takes 2 3 hours to drive through the park to the rio grande. During the early cretaceous 130 million years ago big bend national park s location was underwater.