SALT LAKE CITY — In the year since Utah’s most spectacular dinosaur fossil block, the 18,000-pound Utahraptor megablock, was moved to a fossil preparation lab at the Utah Geological Survey (UGS) many ...
It was millions of years in the making, but Utahraptor is now Utah’s official state dinosaur — or it will be on May 8. Gov. Gary Herbert signed SB43 into law Friday and it takes effect, like most ...
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Utah lawmakers are considering creating a new state park in celebration of a spectacular find of dinosaur bones. The proposal for Utahraptor State Park, approved by the state House last week and now ...
One night at dinner, 10-year-old dinosaur fan Kenyon Roberts asked a family guest — state Sen. Curt Bramble — why Utah had made the Allosaurus its official state fossil. “I didn’t know we had a state ...
Ten-year-old Kenyon Roberts fist-bumps his Utahraptor foot fossil. Roberts is responsible for SB43, which would make the Utahraptor the first state dinosaur. (Jeremy Roberts) For every letter of the ...
From author Edward Abbey then to Brad Walker now, Moab's Utahraptor State Park has never ceased to amaze. And Walker wants ...