Nine miles north of the University of Texas at Austin, in a three-story, gray concrete building on the satellite J.J. Pickle Research Campus, there is an archive. In the archive there is a cabinet, and in the cabinet, there is a dinosaur leg. The skeletal limb is posed in a crouch, as if its owner were still lurking in an early Jurassic thicket. Once clothed in meat and muscle, the birdlike toes—articulated, curled—are smooth and cool to the touch. The leg belongs to a young adult Dilophosaurus, a large, double-crested predatory dinosaur from 183 million years ago. Made famous by its frilled, venom-spitting incarnation in Jurassic Park, Dilophosaurus has been a staple of dinosaur books and video games for decades. But despite its fame, paleontologists knew…The post Texas Scientists Discover That a Dinosaur Made Famous by ‘Jurassic Park’ Was Even More Formidable Than They Thought appeared first on Texas Monthly.