

On Tuesday, Wylie presented his find to the media.

(His dad happens to work at the Dallas Zoo.) Zoo officials worked with Southern Methodist University to remove the dinosaur. Wylie Brys was just 4 when he discovered dinosaur bones last fall in Mansfield.People are spending more time in the car and they say ‘I’d like to have upgraded service during that extended period of time.’” “There’s a widespread geographic area and people are taking a longer ride in ground transportation – because of that, a product like Uber is going to do so well. “Several times I’ve been to Dallas, it seems like a less-centralized marketplace,” Neveu says. Meanwhile, Dallas’ Uber usage rate among business travelers has gone up from 27 percent to 56 percent in just a year. New York City and Chicago still have strong taxicab cultures – taxis are “everywhere” in those cities, Neveu says. Uber, though, isn’t dominating every metro area. “If they can get an Uber ride for the same amount of money and still be an expense within their company’s expense policy, people feel inclined to do so and enjoy a better class of service.” “A lot of business travelers are always looking for the upgrade,” Bob Neveu, Certify president and co-founder, told KERA’s Krystina Martinez. Certify based its findings on the 28 million trip receipts its North American clients submit each year. Uber beat out all other forms of ground transportation in Dallas, accounting for 56 percent of the rides. In a few cities, Uber now tops taxi rides for business travelers. That's more than tripled from the 14 percent of rides that Uber had in January 2014. The Associated Press reports: A new report out by Certify, an expense-management system, shows that 47 percent of ground transportation rides by its users in March were through Uber.

Now more than ever, folks traveling for business are ditching the taxi and choosing Uber. Five stories that have North Texas talking: really old dinosaur bones are discovered in North Texas in Dallas, Uber is beating taxis among business travelers watch a Dallas Zoo giraffe give birth and more.
