From Oysterfest in Rockport to a glowing circus in Robstown and a car show for animals in Corpus Christi, here are some events happening around the Coastal Bend this weekend.

One movement in Carnival of the Animals, by Camille Saint-Saëns, is called “Fossils.” A xylophone sounds like dancing bones, but it’s still a stretch to associate the short work with the Brontosaurus ...

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Spencer, a small town in Owen County, sits next to one of the most stunning natural areas in the state, and chances are you’ve never given it a second thought. These historic storefronts have more ...

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

Two marsupial species thought long extinct, until now known only from fossils, were found alive in New Guinea through a ...

Some animals were known only through fossils and assumed extinct for millions of years. The video examines five species whose unexpected rediscovery challenged scientific certainty. Visuals focus on ...

New research shows that the earliest sponges were soft bodied and lacked skeletons, explaining why their oldest fossils are ...

Until now, scientists have only known about the animals from fossils. But they suspected the creatures might still be alive, ...

A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Instead of a single marine amphibian species, researchers ...

A fossil skull barely 1 inch long has proved to be a newborn reptile from Brazil’s Late Triassic, a period more than 230 million years ago when early reptiles dominated land ecosystems. Its tiny jaw ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Arjan Mann with a 3D-printed replica of Tyrannoroter’s skull in the Carboniferous coal forest display at Chicago’s Field Museum.