Big Bend National Park is a land of superlatives, and that extends to an area of primal interest: the Age of Reptiles.

Big Bend's unparalleled fossil record has enthralled paleontologists and dinosaur enthusiasts for a century. Discoveries here include the largest flying creature ever known – quetzalcoatlus, a reptile with a 35-foot wingspan. Big Bend outcrops hold the bones of alamosaurus – a 70-ton “titanosaur” that was the largest dinosaur to live in North America. In that lost world, giants clashed where mountain lions and rattlesnakes prowl today. Duck-billed hadrosaurs – “the cows of the Cretaceous” – grazed in herds or family groups. They were up to 30 feet long, b... Hosted by for KRTS