One night at dinner, 10-year-old dinosaur fan Kenyon Roberts asked a family guest — state Sen. Curt Bramble — why Utah had made the Allosaurus its official state fossil. “I didn’t know we had a state ...
SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah paleontologist says the headlines surrounding a new dinosaur discovery in Argentina, which claims to have unearthed the largest raptor ever found, are simply not true. The ...
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Was Utahraptor a dominant predator or a misunderstood one?
Utahraptor is often described as the largest and most fearsome of all raptor dinosaurs, but the science behind that claim ...
When Jurassic Park stomped into theaters during the summer of 1993, audiences suddenly became familiar with predators of the past like Dilophosaurus and Velociraptor. Right around that time, real-life ...
MOAB, Utah — At the top of the Dalton-Wells Quarry, the view is incredible. The scenic La Sal mountain range is in the distance. On ridge, you can see the redrock boundary of Arches National Park. A ...
When it was released in 1993, Jurassic Park turned Velociraptor into a household name. Agile and cunning, it was a type of predatory dinosaur theater audiences hadn't seen before. But paleontologists ...
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How Utahraptor became the apex killer of its age
Utahraptor emerged as a predator unlike anything else in the raptor lineage. Fossil discoveries show a creature far larger and more powerful than its famous relatives. Its sheer size and pack-hunting ...
It was millions of years in the making, but Utahraptor is now Utah’s official state dinosaur — or it will be on May 8. Gov. Gary Herbert signed SB43 into law Friday and it takes effect, like most ...
Paleontologist Robert Bakker’s exclamation to his colleague, Jim Kirkland, on the phone back in 1991 was quite literally about a big discovery. Digging in Gaston Quarry in Grand County, Utah, Kirkland ...
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