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 ...
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 ...
This article is part of The State of Science, a series featuring science stories from public radio stations across the United States. This story, by David Condos, was originally published by KUER.
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 — An 18,000-pound "megablock" unearthed in Grand County contains twice as many Utahraptor fossils as originally observed, the Utah Department of Natural Resources reports. The massive ...
Utahraptor is considered the largest raptor dinosaur ever identified and one of the most dangerous Fossil remains indicate a ...
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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 ...
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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Utah lawmakers are considering creating a new state park in celebration of a spectacular find of dinosaur bones. The proposal for Utahraptor State Park, approved by the state House last week and now ...
A bill under consideration Thursday at the Utah State Capitol would create a new state park with a cost of $10 million to taxpayers. House Bill 322, sponsored by Rep. Steve Eliason (R - District 45), ...