The Naylor Family Dinosaur Gallery features stunning dinosaurs and fossils, bringing to life the giant creatures that walked the shores and plunged the depths of ancient seas that covered Texas hundreds of millions of years ago.
More than 1,300 men died fighting for Mexican Independence in the 1813 Battle of Medina.
Laura Lange has been visiting the Witte Museum with her now 30-year-old son Ryan since he was five years old.
This summer, the Witte Museum will become a destination for dinosaur lovers across the country as it hosts the blockbuster exhibitions Tyrannosaurs: Meet the Family, from the Australian Museum, and Antarctic Dinosaurs, from Chicago’s Field Museum.
As you visit Antarctic Dinosaurs, you’ll learn about the rough conditions paleontologists can face.
The land around you has not always been as you see it now. The planet is in a constant state of change.
There is an ancient, sacred landscape in Texas, bounded by hundreds of colorful pictographs, that includes the Witte Museum’s White Shaman archaeological site.
Vaqueros and cowboys know the land where they work. Some of the best-known and most difficult working lands in Texas are called the “brush country.”
Naomi Gabriel, who moved to Texas while in the Air Force, has been visiting the Witte for more than 20 years.
What is this creature? Is it a cross between an alligator and a fish? It kind of looks like one, with its long snout and sharp teeth, but no. It is the alligator gar (Atractosteus spatula), a species of fish that can be linked to the time of dinosaurs.
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