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 ...

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 ...

“I am doing that kind of discovery right now,” Kirkland said. “I’m just lucky to be alive.” Kirkland, Utah’s state paleontologist, uncovered and named the Utahraptor in 1993. The deadly predator ...

At first, scientists thought there was one adult Utahraptor, 10 juveniles and three babies. But Jim Kirkland says the mega block of fossils probably has twice as many dinosaurs as that. That would ...

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 ...

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