paleontology

Researchers have found that the Utahraptor is 10 million years older than previously thought. The discovery at a site near Moab is helping paleontologists fill a big gap in the fossil record.

Thursday morning, May 21, 2020Draper Tests For AntibodiesFive hundred Draper residents were tested Wednesday for COVID-19 antibodies. The city's mayor…

The Utah Geological Survey (UGS) packed up and moved an 18,000-pound sandstone block full of dinosaur bones Wednesday.UGS paleontologists originally…

What has sharp teeth, big, recurved claws, and is almost as long as a school bus?Allosaurus jimmadseni — the new species of dinosaur unveiled Friday by…

An extraordinary discovery in the backyard of Colorado Springs has created a window into an evolutionary period we previously knew very little about.

WHITE MESA — Just south of Blanding, researchers are excavating seven giant dinosaur vertebrae. They are part of a 70-foot-long diplodocus skeleton that…

Paleontologists have found a new species of tyrannosaur based on fossils in Emery County, Utah. Lindsay Zanno found the fossilized leg bone sticking out...

A paper published this week reports that a recent fossil discovery in Central Utah is changing what researchers know about the emergence of large…

A recent discovery of a 130-million-year-old fossilized skull in eastern Utah is shaking up what researchers know about evolutionary history. Back in…

The Utahraptor, a six-foot tall prehistoric predator, is clawing its way closer to becoming the official state dinosaur.Sen. Curt Bramble, R-Provo,…

Dan Chure had just wrapped up a career at Dinosaur National Monument last summer. He’d worked there nearly 40 years.“I'm not leaving because there's…

Scientists say they’ve found the world’s first mass grave of dinosaurs killed in quicksand. The fossil block was discovered in Eastern Utah.It took…