Hill County Courthouse. The fourth courthouse for Hill County (organized in 1853) and the third one located in Hillsboro, this impressive landmark replaced a brick court building erected in 1874. Contractors Lovell, Miller and Hood of Brownsville built this structure in 1890 at a cost of $83,000, from Bell County limestone.
The Jurassic is called the Golden Age of dinosaurs, because of the variety and abundance of dinosaurs that lived during this time, among them the largest land animals of all time, the giant sauropods (figure 45.50). Sauropods such as Brachiosaurus were the dominant herbivores (plant eaters) of the Jurassic.
Or do you think of plants? Probably not, right? After all, plants aren't the most exciting living things in the world. Or are they? They just sit there and soak up water and nutrients from the soil and the sun, right? Or do some plants do more? Would you believe that there are some plants that eat insects and even small animals from time to time? It's true! We call these exotic things carnivorous plants. Although most carnivorous plants eat small insects, larger carnivorous plants in tropical areas have been known to capture rats, birds, and frogs. One carnivorous plant that many students are familiar with is the Venus flytrap. Its unique â jaws can be triggered by flies and other small insects.