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Jeanette Bonnell likes to play in the dirt. The 62-year-old retired human resources specialist is also pretty handy with a dentist’s drill.
Though a flightless creature, this newly-discovered dino takes after the Roman god Mercury, and even superhero The Flash, with wings on its head.
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The Roman god Mercury is a rather influential figure – a planet, an element, and even superheroes, such as the Golden Age version of DC’s the Flash, have either been named after or inspired by the fleet-footed messenger deity.
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Scientists from Brigham Young University and Dinosaur National Monument have teamed up to map the famous “wall of bones,” a sandstone slab containing more than a thousand dinosaur fossils.
A great video short that talks about Utah’s expansive fossil record and dinosaur findings due in part to our wide variety of geology. Watch it to find out more about Utah’s contribution to dino discoveries.
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Welcome to a place where you can get prehistoric with dinosaur bones and track sites.
New ideas that dinosaurs had a “Goldilocks” lifestyle with a mix of both warm and cold blood. Check it out!
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If you go to a zoo on a cold day and watch the snakes, you’ll see what it means to be coldblooded. Not much action going on — most reptiles and other coldblooded creatures take on the temperature of their surroundings, so they tend to be most sluggish when the outside temperature is cool. The monkeys, however, act like they’ve had one too many cappuccinos. That’s largely because they’re warmblooded — their bodies have lots of tricks for actively generating heat and losing it, so they’re metabolically able to move quickly and maintain their core temperature no matter how hot or cold it is outside.
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The Bureau of Land Management-Utah Henry Mountain Field Station is partnering with the Burpee Museum of Rockford, Illinois, to conduct free guided tours at the Hanksville-Burpee Dinosaur Quarry. Daily tours for the public began May 29 and continue through June 7. No tours will be offered on Sunday, June 1.
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Jeanette Bonnell likes to play in the dirt. The 62-year-old retired human resources specialist is also pretty handy with a dentist’s drill.
An expansive dino discovery has been made in Idaho. The research team accounts that this site has produced over 100 fossils with potential to produce hundreds more. Read more about this new find!
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A Montana State University graduate student and MSU paleontologist David Varricchio are part of a research team that discovered the most productive and diverse dinosaur fossil site known in Idaho.
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A huge desert created by global warming likely prevented early dinosaurs from migrating out of South America for millions of years, suggests an analysis of ancient rocks. (Related: “Oldest Dinosaur Found?“)
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