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At first glance, it may be hard to see how the ducks you feed, the pigeons you dodge, or the peacocks you admire have anything in common with the “terrible lizards” portrayed in iconic dinosaur movies such as Jurassic Park.

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Uintah County launched a new dino-themed marketing campaign this Month with two animated dinosaurs named Vern and Al, which put together spell Vernal.

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smithsonianmag.com

We often ridicule what we love, and, in the realm of dinosaurs, that may explain our complicated relationship with the late, great Tyrannosaurus rex. The gigantic carnivore is the A-list celebrity of the Mesozoic, making repeated appearances on the silver screen as well as holding an obligatory presence in most museum exhibits. Yet, we just can’t stop ourselves from poking fun at the tyrant’s dinky arms. Maybe, though, it’s time we stifle our laughter.

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moabsunnews.com

The Utah Friends of Paleontology will rendezvous in Moab for the first time at its annual meeting next month, giving locals an opportunity to explore sites and learn from experts about the dinosaurs that once roamed the area.

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gjsentinel.com

Two hundred million years of burning sun, icy winters, pounding rains and scouring winds were nothing. Decades of submersion in cold, clear water from the Colorado River have been even less.

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phenomena.nationalgeographic.com

Just about every two weeks, we meet a new dinosaur species. Some come fresh from the desert. Others have been hiding in museum collections for decades, or were misidentified as different species. However they’re found, though, dinosaurs are stomping out onto the public stage at a greater rate than ever before. Just last week, for example, paleontologist Hans-Dieter Sues and colleagues named a new, tiny tyrannosaur that once scampered around prehistoric Uzbekistan. And if the latest estimate is correct, we’re not even close to hitting Peak Dinosaur yet.

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Has anyone been lucky enough to visit this museum?

smithsonianmag.com

When visitors go to the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, they are not exactly wrong to think that dinosaurs are the stars of the show. This is, after all, the museum that discovered Stegosaurus, Brontosaurus, Apatosaurus, Allosaurus, Triceratops, Diplodocus and Atlantosaurus, among others.

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In a land before time…an oasis of life in a now petrified forest.

smithsonianmag.com

Petrified Forest National Park is the kind of place that sneaks up on you. As you cruise at a brisk 80 miles an hour along Highway 40 in Arizona, a sea of sage, rabbitbush and grass stretches from the road’s shoulder to the horizon. This cloaking makes the transformation all the more dramatic once you reach the park. Not far inside the gate, the low scrub opens into the reds, blues and grays of the Painted Desert.

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Mark your calendars for April 1, 2016!

ecprogress.com

The Bureau of Land Management Moab Field Office invites the public to the grand opening celebration of the Mill Canyon Dinosaur Tracksite Trail. This short interpretive trail features over 200 tracks, representing eight different types of tracks and six different dinosaurs. Imagine an ancient lakebed where these animals trudged through a thick gooey mud over 112 million years ago.

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