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 ...

SALT LAKE CITY — An 18,000-pound "megablock" unearthed in Grand County contains twice as many Utahraptor fossils as originally observed, the Utah Department of Natural Resources reports. The massive ...

Paleontologist Robert Bakker’s exclamation to his colleague, Jim Kirkland, on the phone back in 1991 was quite literally about a big discovery. Digging in Gaston Quarry in Grand County, Utah, Kirkland ...

Utah is considering naming a new park in honor of dinosaurs discovered there. Researchers expect to uncover more Utahraptor bones — provided... Utah Considers State Park Named For Utahraptor Dinosaur ...

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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 ...