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Dinosaurs went extinct long ago, but it is still possible to feel like you’re walking in their footsteps.
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Intense heat. Drought. Wildly extreme weather accompanied by wildfires.
Those climate factors are enough to keep even the most hardy of creatures from settling in, even the gargantuan, plant-eating dinosaurs that roamed the earth more than 200 million years ago.
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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.
#Geology Fashion Forecast: Why #dinosaurs are still in this season. Did these ancient creatures invent the meaning of #YOLO? Even as fossils, they continue to stand in the spotlight.
deseretnews.com
A trio of young boys recently walked around a corner in the Natural History Museum of Utah and stopped cold. In front of them stood the large skeleton of a robustly built Utahceratops, complete with three dangerous horns and a shield plate.
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As any Jurassic World fan could tell you, the soft tissues of ancient animals are supposed to be some of the first things to vanish in the fossilization process. While bones and teeth can be preserved for hundreds of millions of years, protein molecules decay in a mere 4 million years, leaving behind only traces of those building blocks of life.
Dig into this with your morning jolt!
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They’ve been buried for tens of millions of years and now dozens of dinosaurs are being unearthed on BLM land in Utah.
Ever found yourself wondering if one day you’d be a fossil next to your favorite dinosaur in the museum? Smithsonian Magazine has some steps in this fun article of theirs to follow to achieve this global star status down the road.
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Have you ever found yourself standing in a museum, gazing up at the skeleton of a mighty T-Rex with envy and thought “one day, that’ll be me”? Becoming a fossil is a quick and effortless way to become a global superstar. But just how do you become one? Here are five simple ways to increase the chances that your bones could one day find a home next to a velociraptor.
Dinosaurs come in all shapes and sizes.
smithsonianmag.com
After over a century and a half of discovery, you’d think dinosaurs would start getting a little mundane. Paleontologists have already described over 500 different genera of the prehistoric celebrities, and the shape of the dinosaur family tree is well known. But almost on a monthly basis, paleontologists describe new saurians that set social media afire with cries of “What is that thing?” The unexpectedly herbivorous Chilesaurus did so earlier this week, and now, hot on its scaly heels, comes Yi qi—the “strange wing”.
Happy Friday! Take a minute to enjoy Discovery Canada’s short on our Paleontologists here at the Utah Geological Survey and their work on the nearly 9-ton fossil block containing a family of Utahraptor. See James Kirkland, Scott Madsen, Don DeBlieux, and help from others as they unravel their Utahraptor puzzle.
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