A partial skull fossil from the ancient beaver Anchitheriomys buceei (on right) alongside a skull reconstruction. (University of Texas at Austin) Buc-ee’s just got prehistoric bragging rights.

A Buc-ee’s in Temple, Texas on October 10, 2019. Buc’ee’s is a larger-than-life mega-convenience store and now has a fossil named after its beaver mascot. Deposit Photos ...

UT researchers re-discovered an ancient beaver, then named it after Buc-ee's The skull was found by a team of Texas paleontologists in 1941 and is now being understood by researchers almost 80 ...

A partial skull fossil from the ancient beaver Anchitheriomys buceei (on right) alongside a skull reconstruction. (Photo credit: UT Jackson School of Geosciences / Matthew Brown.) ...

A species of ancient beaver rediscovered by researchers in The University of Texas Austin’s fossil collections is now namedafter the popular Texas travel center chain Buc-ee's.

A unique skull cast made when sediment seeped into the brain cavity of a dead beaver eons ago, the fossil was first discovered in the East Texas hamlet of Burkeville in 1941 by a team of Texas A&M ...

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An ancient beaver fossil discovered by University of Texas researchers has been named after Buc-ee’s, the Texas-based convenience store chain that has several travel centers in Alabama.