The Continuously Evolving Picture of the World’s Largest Raptor Utahraptor is an official state dinosaur and an NBA mascot’s inspiration. Understanding it has been anything but simple ...

SALT LAKE CITY — An 18,000-pound "megablock" unearthed in Grand County contains twice as many Utahraptor fossils as originally observed, the Utah Department of Natural Resources reports.

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.

Utahraptor has been very, very good to me…. I am the world authority on Utahraptor,” he told The Salt Lake Tribune earlier. He said that discovery was made about 1990 near Arches National Park.

Utah is considering naming a new park in honor of dinosaurs discovered there. Researchers expect to uncover more Utahraptor bones — provided they can get them out of a massive block of rock.

Indeed, even more scraps of Utahraptor have been found since that time, but we have to patiently wait for further details about this famous predator. References: Britt, B.; Chure, D.; ...

Outdoor enthusiasts have a reason to head to Grand County — and no, it's not just Arches National Park. Driving the news: Located about 15 miles northwest of Moab, Utahraptor State Park opened ...

The Utahraptor officially became Utah's "state dinosaur" in 2018 through a bill signed by former Gov. Gary Herbert. Meanwhile, there's a bill that would create "Utahraptor State Park" in Grand County.

SALT LAKE CITY — In the final hours of the current Utah legislative session, lawmakers approved the creation of two new state parks Thursday.

Utahraptor fossils were brought to Utah’s Capitol Hill to kick off an effort to get $10 million to create Utah’s 45th state park: Utahraptor State Park.