#prehistoric bones

Dinosaur Ridge: Walking in the Steps of Dinos in Colorado

Sometimes my kids (and my wife) complain that I am older than a dinosaur. It’s true that I am old enough to remember the Flintstones as more than vitamins or a live-action movie, but I don’t think I’m as old as a dinosaur (although I might sometimes slowly galumph like the giant beasts. To prove my point, I took the family to Dinosaur Ridge in Morrison, Colorado, outside of Denver. Here, we…

Construction at the former Aquarena Springs amusement park has unearthed human remains believed to have been buried at the headwaters of the San Marcos River long before the first Spanish explorers set foot in what is now Texas.

Texas State archaeologist Jon C. Lohse said the bones were discovered on the peninsula that juts between Spring Lake and the Sink Creek slough but declined to say exactly where because the grave has not been excavated. Texas State University, which in 1994 bought the former tourist attraction made famous by Ralph the swimming pig, broke ground last month on a renovation of the property that includes demolition of the park’s old buildings and recasting the lake as the headquarters of the university’s Texas Rivers Center.