Mayborn Museum Podcast

The Stone Site is an archeological dig located 10 miles north of Waco, which archeologists believe was the site of a large Tawakoni Village settled in 1770. It is believed that 750 people lived in the village until it was abandoned in 1778.

Several plants and animals have adapted to forest life by blending in with their environment. See what you can find hidden in the dioramas.

Take a stroll through a forest from the 1850s. The left side of the room depicts the Post Oak forests of Central Texas and the right side is the Piney Wood of East Texas.

The early Texas settlers described the grasses as being taller than a grown man. Farmers quickly discovered that the soil, for which the Blackland Prairie was named, was rich and fertile.

There are more than 30,000 species of forest insects found in Texas. Many depicted in this diorama are cleverly disguised by camouflage. Try to find the Giant Walking Stick and Dog-Day Cicadas for starters.

This diorama represents the long cliffs and steep slopes found in Central Texas formed by erosion or the movement of earth along a fault line.

This skeleton was believed to have lived 75 million years ago and was found in Gholson by a couple who discovered it sticking out of the ground following a rainstorm.

These fossilized remains of a Plesiosaur were found below the Waco dam in 1948. These large carnivorous water reptiles were not dinosaurs and lived 199 to 145 million years ago.

Welcome to Central Texas during the Cretaceous Period when much of the area was covered by warm, shallow seas dominated by large reptiles like plesiosaurs, crocodiles, and giant turtles.

See an ivory cribbage board made from a walrus tusk, as well as a variety of other tusks, and a canine tooth from a Hippopotamus of the White Nile in Africa.