One night at dinner, 10-year-old dinosaur fan Kenyon Roberts asked a family guest — state Sen. Curt Bramble — why Utah had made the Allosaurus its official state fossil. “I didn’t know we had a state ...

SALT LAKE CITY — 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 predator that ...

It was millions of years in the making, but Utahraptor is now Utah’s official state dinosaur — or it will be on May 8. Gov. Gary Herbert signed SB43 into law Friday and it takes effect, like most ...

One dromaeosaur - Utahraptor - stood taller than all the rest, to the point where it could quite comfortably fit an animal the size of Velociraptor in its mouth. While other genera, such as ...

MOAB, Utah — At the top of the Dalton-Wells Quarry, the view is incredible. The scenic La Sal mountain range is in the distance. On ridge, you can see the redrock boundary of Arches National Park. A ...

Paleontologist Robert Bakker’s exclamation to his colleague, Jim Kirkland, on the phone back in 1991 was quite literally about a big discovery. Digging in Gaston Quarry in Grand County, Utah, Kirkland ...