SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah paleontologists are asking people to help raise $100,000 so they can extract Utahraptor fossils from a 9-ton block of stone to find out more about this sharp-clawed ...

After over 15 years of excavation and transportation, a massive block containing the remains of an entire pack of Utahraptors hit a snag.

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Since Its Discovery 20 Years Ago, Block Of Fossils Keeps Scientists Busy In what's considered Utah's most spectacular dinosaur find, paleontologists believe the Utahraptor megablock could hold the ...

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 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 ...

Utahraptor fossils were brought to Utah’s Capitol Hill to kick off an effort to get $10 million to create Utah’s 45th state park: Utahraptor State Park.

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 ...