A fight millions of years in the making between Allosaurus and Utahraptor has been avoided. Sen. Curt Bramble, R-Provo, says he’s been persuaded to rewrite SB43 and stop pushing to have ...

“I didn’t know we had a state fossil,” Bramble says. So Kenyon launched into a long argument about why Utahraptor should have that designation instead. As he explains now, “Its name has ...

Utahraptor – a feathered, agile, bird-like apex predator. Dromaeosaurs, or more popularly, raptors, are easily some of the most famous of the dinosaurs, thanks to their starring role in a ...

Using both sets of fossils, James Kirkland, Robert Gaston and Donald Burge described the new dinosaur in 1993 and named it Utahraptor. Not very much of it was found—the raptor was described on ...

The proposal for Utahraptor State Park, approved by the state House last week and now moving through the Utah Senate, would create a park near the spot where a geology student found a bone ...

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Governor Spencer Cox joked at the opening of the new Utahraptor State Park. The new state park is named for the Utahraptor, a dinosaur species made famous because it's what paleontologists say the ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Scientists believe they have many more Utahraptor fossils than they originally believed from a 136 million-year-old sandstone "megablock" that was first discovered in Utah two ...

If so, the Oxford University Museum of Natural History might have just the utahraptor for you. The model of the fearsome predator will be given away free of charge to whoever puts forward the best ...