The Heard Natural Science Museum & Wildlife Sanctuary

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Visit the grounds for examples of native wildlife and plant life.

Venomous Snakes of Texas

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The exhibit includes a herptarium containing several species of rattlesnakes in a cave-like setting. Souther Copperhead, Cottonmouth and Coral snak...
Birds Through a Naturalist's Eye

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The museum displays 40 folio plates from famous nature artists John James Audubon (1785-1851), John Gould (1804-1881) and Edward Lear (1812-1888) t...
The Living Lab

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The museum offers a fantasy science laboratory, located in a forest setting that allows all ages to look into the natural sciences of biology, ecol...
A Bird in the Hand...

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The exhibit focuses on the bird research at the museum from the more than 240 species and data colected at bird banding stations, nest box monitori...
Treasures from the Attic

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This is an exhibit of Bessie Heard, founder of the museum. The exhibit space will change to offer objects from the collection never seen by the pub...

Dinosaurs and Men Did Co-exist

By Catherine Downes | Thu, November 10, 2011

The sixth annual Dinosaurs Live! Life-size Animatronic Dinosaurs exhibit is up and running. The exhibit is like Jurassic Park, but instead of real dinosaurs being cloned out of DNA preserved in a piece of prehistoric amber, it features robotic din... More »
The Heard Has Gone Batty

By Daniel Rodrigue | Thu, June 30, 2011

It turns out that for every time you've wondered why on earth mosquitoes exist, one relevant answer was, well, bat food. Apparently, bats aren't all leather-winged bloodsuckers hell-bent on feasting on the necks of randy teenagers. As it turns out... More »

Venomous Snakes of Texas