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Interview with Dr. Jim Kirkland, the paleontologist who named Utahraptor ostrommaysorum, a dinosaur (or raptor) with nine-inch claws.
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Big things are happening in Moab. Have you heard of the Moab Giants Museum? Read more to find out about this wonderful new addition to southern Utah!
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With the summer blockbuster “Jurassic World” opening in theaters, there’s plenty of opportunity to be entertained — or frightened — by dinosaurs.
smithsonianmag.com
Utah is dinosaur country—so much so that the state has a scenic byway system called the Dinosaur Diamond that connects ancient final resting places across the desert. But among the sites holding preserved tracks and dusty fossils, one boneyard stands out as a 148-million-year-old mystery: the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry.
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Meet Wendiceratops, a new species of dinosaur with spectacular headgear — named after an Alberta woman who may be one of the best dinosaur hunters in the world.
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Authorities are looking for a vandal after a set of dinosaur tracks northeast of Moab, Utah was found filled with plaster.
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Good 4 Utah’s Adam Carroll visited Red Fleet State Park, just seven miles north of Vernal in Uintah County.
Called a “mini Lake Powell” by locals, the park’s lake winds through red cliffs, similar to those found at Lake Powell.
Many people don’t go for just the lake. People can hike, swim or canoe over to 200 million year old dinosaur tracks.
Check out the report above to learn more about the dino tracks at the park.
smithsonianmag.com
While the lead predator of the film might be a genetically modified fiction, these real fossil species were just as amazing and bizarre
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Utah is one of the best places to find and study dinosaur fossils. In fact, dinosaur fossils are so abundant here it had many scientists wondering, “Why Utah?”
nationalgeographic.com
More than two decades after dinosaurs crashed the electric fences in Jurassic Park, the fourth installment in the series—Jurassic World—has once again delivered hapless tourists to the claws and jaws of genetically engineered monsters. But even though everyone knows this is science fiction, headlines and high-profile articles about de-extinction have let fiction stalk a little closer to reality.
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