Dallas, TX (October 6, 2026) — The Perot Museum of Nature and Science announced today the 2027 season of the Museum’s popular National Geographic Live Speakers series. The annual event features stories and stunning photography from National Geographic Explorers sharing incredible discoveries and insights into the world’s wildlife and nature. From exploring the wildlife of the African Savana and the depths of caves to capturing the Milky Way audiences will experience awe-inspiring stories and visuals that illuminate our world. The upcoming three-part season kicks off February 24, 2027.

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DALLAS, TX (September 29, 2026) – The Perot Museum of Nature and Science announced today that it will be the first museum in North America to host the international tour of The March of the Triceratops. On view exclusively at the Perot Museum in July 2027, the exhibition features five extraordinary Triceratops fossil skeletons from the only known herd ever discovered. The immersive exhibition offers rare insight into how these enormous plant-eating dinosaurs may have lived 68–66 million years ago. The March of the Triceratops presents more than 1,200 bones and fossil fragments from five Triceratops horridus discovered together in a single rock layer near Newcastle, Wyoming from a Cretaceous-aged rock unit called the Lance Formation.

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DALLAS (September 21, 2026) – The Perot Museum of Nature and Science’s signature fundraising event, Night at the Museum, returns on Saturday, November 14, 2026, bringing together supporters, community leaders and Museum advocates for an unforgettable evening of exploration, wonder and possibility.

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Dallas, TX (June 25, 2026) — A unique cache of plant fossils from volcanic deposits in New Mexico contradicts the common narrative that flowering plants, which now dominate the earth’s flora, had more limited roles in the ecology of Earth’s forests before dinosaurs disappeared 66 million years ago. New research shows surprisingly large seeds and fleshy fruits in a dense flowering-plant dominated forest, preserved in a “botanical Pompeii” that happened nearly 10 million years before a catastrophic asteroid impact wiped out the dinosaurs.

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DALLAS, TX (May 21, 2026) – There’s a new T. rex in the fossil record, only this one terrorized the ancient seas. New research led by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History (New York City, NY), the Perot Museum of Nature and Science, and Southern Methodist University (SMU) uncovers a new, massive species of mosasaur, a marine reptile that lived during the age of the dinosaurs. One of the largest mosasaurs known to date—stretching up to 43 feet long—this top predator was described from 80-million-year-old fossils that were found primarily in northern Texas over the span of several decades.

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DALLAS, TX (May 19, 2026) – The Perot Museum of Nature and Science is kicking off the summer soccer season with one of its largest and most interactive events yet as tickets officially go on sale this week for Thursdays on Tap: Soccer Edition, taking place July 9 from 3-9 pm for all ages.

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