“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...