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MOAB — Even though Utahraptor State Park isn't officially open yet, Haruo Kawate couldn't wait to visit. For most people, the park is about fossils, dinosaurs and recreation. But for Kawate, who ...

Imagine the Velociraptors from "Jurassic Park" but much bigger - bigger teeth, bigger claws. Those were real. They're called Utahraptors. Scientists found 136-million-year-old fossils of them in an ...

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 ...

LAWRENCE — Utahraptor is going to need 10 million more candles on its next birthday cake. A geological study of the rock formation that encased a fossilized example of the world’s biggest “raptor” ...

History buffs and dinosaur lovers are making another push to establish Utahraptor State Park in Grand County, on a fossil-rich tract of land that’s currently suffering from overuse and vandalism. Rep.

Utahraptor emerged as a predator unlike anything else in the raptor lineage. Fossil discoveries show a creature far larger ...

SALT LAKE CITY — In the final hours of the current Utah legislative session, lawmakers approved the creation of two new state parks Thursday. The parks include the Dalton Wells area in Grand County ...

In what's considered Utah's most spectacular dinosaur find, paleontologists believe the Utahraptor megablock could hold the fossils of dozens of raptors caught in quicksand millions of years ago.