Tex Is Missing!

In a shocking development this morning, Tex, the Museum of Nature & Science's famous T.rex, was discovered missing. We need your help finding him quickly! His new home, a renovated Texas Dinosaurs exhibit and fossil dig, is scheduled to open during the first-ever Discovery Fest celebration on July 21 and 22, 2007.

Fresh footprints were spotted by Museum staff near the lagoon in Fair Park this morning. Tex may be in your neighborhood soon. If you see any sign of him, take a picture and e-mail it to us. We'll be posting your sightings daily.

Why would Tex leave? We're not sure, but sources close to Tex tell us he has been scared because his home is undergoing big changes. There's been lots of construction and loud noises lately during the Museum's overhaul, so he bolted!

Let's show Tex how much we care about him by learning more about his kind. Okay? Great!

We'll be posting new facts about T.rexes every day. We also have a T.rex Trivia sheet that you can download here.

Print out the trivia form and visit this site daily to find the answers. Fill out your form and then bring it to the Museum of Nature & Science on July 21 or 22 during Discovery Fest and exchange it for a FREE T-SHIRT while supplies last.

Here's our first fact: The first Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton was discovered in Montana in 1905. Of course, that's just when humans discovered it. T. rexes lived during the Cretaceous period, about 65 to 85 million years ago. WOW!