SALT LAKE CITY — Utah lawmakers have passed a bill that makes the Utahraptor the state dinosaur. The Deseret News reports that the designation was inspired by 10-year-old Kenyon Roberts ...

“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 ...

That claw would become the single fossil that characterized a new animal: Utahraptor ostrommaysi. Its journey from rare find to state dinosaur of Utah to inspiration for the NBA’s Toronto ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

On Monday, construction crews broke ground for the new Utahraptor State Park, located about 15 miles north of Moab. "We’re so excited to have dirt moving," said Jeff Rasmussen, the director of ...

Governor Spencer Cox joked at the opening of the new Utahraptor State Park. The new state park is named for the Utahraptor, a dinosaur species made famous because it's what paleontologists say the ...

MOAB — Even though Utahraptor State Park isn't officially open yet, Haruo Kawate couldn't wait to visit. For most people, the park is about fossils, dinosaurs and recreation. But for Kawate ...