Note that this is from today’s paper – a paper that also announces the rise of the cost of a daily newspaper purchased from a vending machine or convenience store to $1, and the rise of the cost of a Sunday newspaper to $2.)
But I read it on-line like the rest of the world....
Texas Legislature may make paluxysaurus official state dinosaur
DAVID FLICK / The Dallas Morning Newsdflick@dallasnews.com The Texas Legislature may vote this year to give long-overdue recognition to one of the state’s oldest residents. How overdue? And how old? CLICK AND READ THE REST OF THE STORY
I think we should. This is a very famous dinosaur.
If you have ever been to Glen Rose Texas and walked the dinosaur foot path, you have walked with the paluxysaurus. In fact, the foot print of one paluxysaurus is very famous.Famous around the world as the first and among the best sauropod tracks ever found, the Glen Rose Dinosaur Tracks at the Texas Memorial Museum are deteriorating.“Years of constant exposure to moisture have taken their toll,” explained Director Ed Theriot. “The tracks need to be restored and moved.”The slab is a type specimen used for comparison and to scientifically describe a particular kind of sauropod trackway.
This slab also shows the tracks of a theropod.“We have begun plans to restore and relocate the tracks,” said Theriot, “and are awaiting an estimate from an accredited stone conservation company to do the work.”Restoration and relocation will entail labeling each piece of the trackways, moving the pieces, and reassembling them inside the Texas Memorial Museum’s first floor Hall of Geology and Paleontology.A capital campaign to fund the project will begin once the trackways have been studied by the stone conservators.
Texas Natural Science Center’s dinosaur tracks, which are on display in a small building just north of the Texas Memorial Museum’s main entrance, were collected from the bed of Paluxy Creek about 5 miles northwest of Glen Rose, Texas. They are among the finest examples of dinosaur trackways ever discovered.
Dinosaur tracks are remarkably abundant in many areas, and provide rich sources of scientific information on dinosaur behavior, locomotion, foot anatomy, ecology, chronology, and geographic distributions. Yet for many years dinosaur tracks were largely neglected by most paleontologists, who often seemed to view them as incidental curiosities. Fortunately, this attitude changed dramatically in recent years. The widespread revival of interest in dinosaurs has been paralleled by a renewed interest in dinosaur tracks. Today countless amateur and professional "trackers" are actively studying track- sites all around the world. New sites are being discovered at a rapid rate, and track studies are becoming more detailed and systematic as the scientific importance of tracks becomes more widely recognized.
My wife and I have seen the original in the Smithsonian in Washington DC and casts in museums in California and even in New Zealand of the Texas paluxysaurus on the left above... which was the original inspiration for other Dinos.
Dino the Dinosaur - Purple, pint-sized Snarkasaurus dinosaur with spots on the animated 
situation comedy THE FLINTSTONES/ABC/1960-66. Living in the year 1,000,040 B.C., Dino was a miniature Brontosaurus (only six feet tall) who resided with Fred and Wilma Flintstone at 345 Stone Cave Road in the town of Bedrock. Each night when Fred returned home from work, Dino enthusiastically rushed toward Fred, knocked him flat on his back and slurped Fred's face with his tongue. Dino's yapping voice was supplied by Mel Blanc/Chips Spam/Don Messick. In addition to Dino the Dinosaur, the Flintstones also owned a Saber-Tooth Cat. At the closing credits of each episode, Fred placed their cat outside for the night. The saber-tooth cat quickly climbed back through a window and proceeded to place Fred outside for the night. Next door to the Flintstones, lived the Barney and Betty Rubble. They owned a prehistoric pet Kangaroo named Hoppy.
situation comedy THE FLINTSTONES/ABC/1960-66. Living in the year 1,000,040 B.C., Dino was a miniature Brontosaurus (only six feet tall) who resided with Fred and Wilma Flintstone at 345 Stone Cave Road in the town of Bedrock. Each night when Fred returned home from work, Dino enthusiastically rushed toward Fred, knocked him flat on his back and slurped Fred's face with his tongue. Dino's yapping voice was supplied by Mel Blanc/Chips Spam/Don Messick. In addition to Dino the Dinosaur, the Flintstones also owned a Saber-Tooth Cat. At the closing credits of each episode, Fred placed their cat outside for the night. The saber-tooth cat quickly climbed back through a window and proceeded to place Fred outside for the night. Next door to the Flintstones, lived the Barney and Betty Rubble. They owned a prehistoric pet Kangaroo named Hoppy.
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