Have you ever faced a dinosaur? Check out this fun article highlighting Gemstone Junction.
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Imagine this: you walk through the doors of Golden Spike Arena’s Exhibit Hall to find a nine-foot-tall Osteosaurus (“Bone Lizard”) biting the heads of schoolchildren.
Don’t worry. No children were harmed in the making of this event.
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About 220 million years ago, as we learn at a thoroughly entrancing new exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History, a fish caught a pterosaur, chewed it up and spit out the pieces. The expelled mass eventually fossilized, creating what is decorously called a “gastric pellet.” We see its cast here: a compact, egg-size mound of spindly, bent, broken and crushed sticks.
Exciting new findings with dinosaur fossils and the organic evidence that remains millions of years later!
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A leading paleontologist and USU graduate returned to her alma mater to present some of her important discoveries about dinosaurs on Friday in a speech hosted by the biology, chemistry and geology departments at USU. She detailed the research process that led her team to their surprising results.
The second edition of this awesome book is now available—check out the article for more details!
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Sierra College Earth Science Professor Frank DeCourten recently released the second edition of his book “Dinosaurs of Utah.” The first edition was released in 1998.
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After years of lying around looking dead, herbivores and carnivores are interacting.
sltrib.com
A newly discovered birdlike feathered dinosaur with sharp claws and a tall crest on its head is the biggest of its kind found in North America. Nicknamed the “chicken from hell,” the fossilized remains announced Wednesday were found by a team that includes a University of Utah researcher. The findings also shed light on the creature’s mysterious genetic relatives.
Read more about this giant ‘chicken’ in this great article from NPR:
The 500-Pound ‘Chicken From Hell’ Likely Ate Whatever It Wanted
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For the past decade, dinosaur scientists have been puzzling over a set of fossil bones they variously describe as weird and bizarre. Now they’ve what animal they belonged to: a bird-like creature they’re calling “the chicken from hell.”
Another update on the stolen dino track from Moab.
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The Grand County Sheriff’s Office revealed “investigators have identified a suspect” in a dinosaur track taken from land near Moab more than two weeks ago; and divers have now gone into murky water to try to find the fossil.
huffingtonpost.com
A fossil bed in China that contains some of the world’s most exquisitely preserved feathered dinosaurs, early birds, reptiles and mammals may also be home to an equally rich set of older fossils from the Middle Jurassic, a new study finds.
Give this article a quick listen!
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A dinosaur recently found in southern Utah has reshaped paleontologists’ ideas of the fierce group of carnivores known as tyrannosaurs.
cbsnews.com
It was one of the biggest, scariest dinosaurs that ever roamed the Earth, a giant predator that prowled Europe millions of years ago.
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