Buc-ee’s T-shirt Shows UT Fossil

December 13, 2025

Buc-ee’s, the popular Texas rest stop with the grinning beaver mascot, recognized a fossil discovery made at the Jackson School of Geosciences in true Buc-ee’s fashion — by slapping it on the back of a T-shirt.  

The shirt features an illustration of a skull from Anchitheriomys buceei, an extinct species of beaver that Research Associate Steven May named after the rest stop. May found the fossil skull in the Jackson School collections and identified it as a new species in 2023. The fossil’s 15 million-year-old age reminded May of a Buc-ee’s billboard that read: “This is Beaver Country.”  

“I thought, ‘Yeah, it is beaver country, and it has been for millions of years,’” May said.  

The skull is situated on the shirt as part of a “beaverlution” timeline that starts with the appearance of A. buceei 15 million years ago and ends with the founding of Buc-ee’s in 1982.