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Walk toward the marble front steps of the building formerly known as the Texas Memorial Museum, and you’ll be greeted by a saber-toothed cat perched on a rock. Its jaws open around scimitar fangs, and its shoulders are half-hunched, as if the fearsome feline is contemplating a pounce. Inside the 38,000-square-foot, Art Deco–influenced museum, which sits just off Trinity Street on the University of Texas at Austin campus, a huge sea lizard dives amid glass-walled displays of Permian amphibians and Pleistocene ground sloths. Even the echoing entrance hall lies beneath the skeletal shadow of enormous pterosaur wings. This 86-year-old building has long been a public repository for many of the state’s most spectacular vanished creatures. Despite the natural riches on display, the museum was perennially underfunded…

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