An artist’s interpretation of ancient North American fauna. A new study led by The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences revealed that elephant-like gomphotheres, rhinos, horses and antelopes with slingshot-shaped horns were among the species recovered near Beeville, Texas, by Great Depression-era fossil hunters. Jay Matternes/ The Smithsonian Institution.
An artist’s interpretation of ancient North American fauna. A new study led by The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences revealed that elephant-like gomphotheres, rhinos, horses and antelopes with slingshot-shaped horns were among the species recovered near Beeville, Texas, by Great Depression-era fossil hunters. Jay Matternes/ The Smithsonian Institution.
Fossils in the Jackson School Museum of Earth History's vertebrate paleontology collections. From left: Skull parts from elephant relatives; an extinct rhino jaw and shoulder blades; teeth from ancient horse species; a view of the collections basement; a wall of WPA-era fossils; A WPA-era fossil from Bee county in its field jacket beside a rhino skull; the skull of a shovel-jawed gomphothere (pictured on bottom) still wrapped in its field jacket; teeth from an extinct bear relative; a jaw from an extinct horse species.