A new study reveals how a newly discovered dinosaurspecies, named Iani smithi, provides crucial insights into significant ecological changes that transpired in North America around 100 million years ago. Living during the early LateCretaceous, Iani smithi, discovered in Utah’s Cedar Mountain...
New dinosaur species discovered in Utah: ; Scientists unearth fossils in southern Utah
A team of researchers has discovered a newspeciesof horned dinosaur, called Nasutoceratops titusi, in southern Utah. Salt Lake City, Utah – A remarkable new species of horned dinosaur has been unearthed in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, southern Utah. The huge plant-eater inhabited...
Central Utah’s Prehistoric Museum in Price houses fossils from more dinosaur species than any other museum in the country. World-class exhibits of the region’s unique paleontology, archaeology and geology can all be found under one roof. ...
“We’re in the golden age of paleontology right now,” said Kirkland. “These past 25 years, we’ve had a five-fold increase in numbers of dinosaur species identified in Utah. We now have more [known] dinosaur species than any other state in the nation.” ...
Siats comes from a Native American legend about a man-eating monster called the Siats. The scientists who unearthed the skeleton learned of the story in the area in Utah it was discovered, and they adopted the name to reflect this local lore. To be clear, Siats were NOT man-eaters, of ...
species returned to the same site year after year to lay theirclutches. As Horner concluded, “site fidelity” was an instinctive part of dinosaurian reproductive strategy. This was confirmed more recently with the discovery of sauropod nests and eggs spread over many square kilometres inPatagonia,...
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An example of an Allosaurus species. (NPS/Bob Walters Tess Kissinger / FOX Weather) In fact, the dinosaur Müller and his team discovered would have predated perhaps the most well-known carnivorous dinosaur, Tyrannosaurus Rex, by at least 150 million years. ...
• Over 1000 different species of dinosaurs have been named and the list continues to grow as new fossils are discovered. • Some of the largestfossilized dinosaureggs ever discovered were found in China in the mid-1990s.. The eggs are over 60cm (2ft) long and 20cm (8in) wide. ...