Explore Utah’s rich dinosaur history through its many museums and archeological dig sites dedicated to the prehistoric creatures.
demonstrating how the dinosaurs that made them 120 million years ago were among the last to be able to complete their journey. ThatÕs because this was when the supercontinent Gondwana broke off from Pangea, severing the geological connection. The prints were discovered in Brazil and Cameroon, a...
Utah, Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm, providing paleontologists with the first evidence of a “squatting dinosaur.” James Kirkland, the Utah State paleontologist, observed that the new discovery suggests the creature rested on its hind end and...
Utahraptorwas the largest dromaeosaur by far at 7 meters (23 ft) in length. Its flesh-tearing claws measured an astounding 23 centimeters (9 in). Couple that with its estimated weight of 900 kilograms (2,000 lb), and you have a serious threat on your hands.[5] ...
We'll never know ifTyrannosaurus rexwas particularly fiercer or scarier than other, less-popular tyrannosaurs likeAlbertosaurusorAlioramus—or even whether it hunted live prey or spent most of its time feasting on already-dead carcasses. Whatever the case, there's no question thatT. rexwas a ...
Did Brachiosaurids live in water? Until recently, some paleontologists believed that brachiosaurus, due to their weight (estimated 30-80 tons), would feel better when wading partially submerged in water, using its buoyancy. It was assumed that brachiosaurus rarely left the aquatic environment. ...
Methodology/Principal Findings: Here we describe two new, co-occurring ceratopsids from the Upper Cretaceous Kaiparowits Formation of Utah that provide the strongest support to date for the dinosaur provincialism hypothesis. Both pertain to the clade of ceratopsids known as Chasmosaurinae, ...
With patience, Zanno has successfully searched the rocks of central Utah for over a decade. The fona, the smallest plant-eating dinosaur that lived underground, is one of several new species found in Utah's Mussentuchit Flat area. "That's one of the most outstanding th...
Crocodile ancestors date back 240 million years to the Triassic period, that’s the same era that dinosaurs first began to flourish. Paleontologist Bhart-Anjan Bhullar discovered two fossils in Utah that date back to the Triassic period. The complete remains of the Poposaur give clues about the...
It references a study by Scott Sampson and Mark Loewen et al., published in the journal "PLoS ONE." The first species was named Utahceratops gettyi while the second was called Kosmoceratops richardsoni. The study showed that the animals were inhabitants of the lost continent of Laramidia....