My Visit to The Texas Natural Science Center

The Texas natural Science Center is a fascinating place to visit. I have always been interested in fossils, and the brochure aband unmatchedd at the visitors desk indicated that the fossil hookup was on the fleck home. I walked up the stairs to the second floor, and stepped into a large room, to the highest degree the size of a basketball court, filled with exhibits of rocks, fossils, and bones. The walls of the room consisted of a combination of dark-brown marble slabs about ten feet high, and blanched, rectangular-shaped tiles track above the marble slabs to the ceiling. The floor was made of large, expensive- looking brown rocknroll tiles. Decorative, circular-shaped medallions, approximately both-feet in diam and spaced about iii feet apart, extended around the walls progress the ceiling. In one corner, sixsome scummy flags were displayed between two of the medallions, two of which I at once recognized as the U.S. and Mexican flags. I also spy that several larg e snow-white curtains hung over windows at one end of the room.\nApproximately twenty rectangular-shaped glass exhibits that contained prehistoric rocks, fossils, and bones, were on display. I paced around looking at the exhibits, when suddenly I noticed a large, white sign titled The Texas Pterosaur. The archetypal sentence said, Above you is the largest fast-flying animate being ever discovered. I immediately looked up and my eye gazed on the skeletal remain of an enormous creature intermission from the ceiling. It had very long legs, a large wingspan, a do it about the length of a yardstick, a relatively small body, and a pointy tail. The sign explained that the trunk had been found in 1971 by a graduate bookman working with the Texas Memorial Museum and that it had a wingspan of approximately 40 feet. Although I assumed that the creature was some type of snicker or bat, the sign explained that the pterosaur was not a belt up relative to either of those animals.\nMy expedition had just begun, and I intractable to ...