Texas Transformation Gallery

Experience Texas’ shifting environmental identity during the past 600 million years through stunning imagery, a selection of fascinating skulls and a paleogeographic time-lapse animation.

Explore the changing ecosystems, major extinction events and rapid diversification of life that helped transform the region into what it is today.

A large-scale timeline takes visitors step by step through major transitions in the history of life in Texas over 600 million years, introducing vocabulary and ecological communities that visitors can explore further throughout the museum. Study colorful illustrations of environments and organisms of the past to better understand the incredible ways that life has evolved in Texas.

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