Little Grand Canyon of the San Rafael River, Emery County, Utah Photographer: Zach Anderson; © 2016 Short days and low winter sun cause ice to form along the San Rafael River where it cuts through the west flank of the San Rafael Swell. The 1,100-foot-deep canyon exposes the Jurassic-Triassic-age Glen Canyon Group along the cliffs […]
ksl.com If you are looking for breath-taking views that don’t require a lot of miles of strenuous hiking, head down to Dead Horse State Park and hike the East Rim Trail. READ MORE
smithsonianmag.com The slip of tectonic plates and the fiery eruptions of volcanoes are just the surface manifestations of the beating heart of our planet. Earth is composed of layers, each one playing a different role in protecting all life from solar storms, recycling the planet’s crust and even changing our climate. The ground beneath our […]
Bells Canyon, Wasatch Range, Salt Lake County, Utah Photographer: Jim Davis; © 2015 Lower Bells Canyon Reservoir and glacially sculpted Bells Canyon, Wasatch Range, Salt Lake County.
ksl.com Arches National Park is seeking the public’s help in finding who is responsible for vandalizing one of the park’s rocks with graffiti. READ MORE
phenomena.nationalgeographic.com A few years back, while crashing at my apartment for the night during a long trip west, a friend of mine asked me “Haven’t paleontologists found all the dinosaurs already?” Museums from coast-to-coast seem well-stocked with primordial reptiles, and, really, when dealing with such giants, how many species could there possibly be? I had […]
sltrib.com Signs of earthquakes are everywhere in the chaotically beautiful geology of southwest Utah and the region where the mile-high Colorado Plateau falls off into the corrugated Basin-and-Range landscape that dominates neighboring Nevada. READ MORE
sunews.net Tyrannosaurus rex! Few names inspire as much awe and fear as T. rex, the undisputed king of the Late Cretaceous time period in North America. Even though this beast’s name is a household word, T. rex and its cousins (collectively known as tyrannosaurs) are actually quite rare. This is even truer for those members […]
More than a Bank Holiday—Evidence of a large scale dinosaur migration out of Europe. wcvb.com More than 100 million years ago, something curious happened. READ MORE
Heading in the right direction—scientists unearth a titanosaur skull that’s lending a lot of insight on these large dinosaurs. news.nationalgeographic.com The largest dinosaurs of all time had a bad habit of losing their heads. When a titanosaur died, its small skull often wound up far from its massive body, making it hard for paleontologists to […]
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