Fossil Fest is indoors.

• Teachers: Extra Credit for Your Students!
• Homeschool Educators: Great Science Learning Opportunity!
• Scouts: Presentations can focus on badge requirements.
• Youth Groups: Plan a great trip to learn about fossils.
• School / Scout / Youth Groups of 10 or more? Sign up here.

Activities include:

• Show Spotlight: Trilobites and the Cambrian
• Speakers (both days):
  • TBD
• BYOF: Bring Your Own Fossil for Fossil Identification
• "Paleo Passport" educational quest for students
• Exhibits: See what amateur fossil collectors find in Texas
• Fossil collections: Start yours at the Wheel of Fossils and Fossil Darts
• Get your Christmas shopping done early! Vendors with fossils, books, art, jewelry, toys and more
• Hourly and Grand Door Prizes

Show Hours

Admission:

$3/adult, $2/child (6-12), children under 6 free.
Special rates may apply for school, scout and youth groups. Inquiries can be made here.

Contacts:

Show Chair : showchairaustinpaleo.org
Webmaster : webmasteraustinpaleo.org

Location:

Old Settler's Heritage Association (inside)   
Next to the Dell Diamond on US Highway 79, Round Rock, TX 3 miles east of IH-35. See map below.

 

Every adult paid admission includes a raffle ticket for these prizes and additional ones may be purchsed. The drawing takes place at the end of the show and you do not need to be present to win.

 

First. Large Stegodon tooth and jaw with stand. This spectactular tooth (over a foot wide) is from a relative of modern elephants that roamed Indonesia in the Pleistocene.

Second. A carving of a mammoth in fossilized mammoth bone, with stand.

Third. A pygmy mammoth femur (replica)