Utahraptor - stood taller than all the rest, to the point where it could quite comfortably fit an animal the size of Velociraptor in its mouth. While other genera, such as Dakotaraptor, steadily ...

When you think of a scary dinosaur, what comes to mind? The agile, sickle-clawed Utahraptor? A towering Tyrannosaurus? Something as alien as the croc-snouted, sail-backed Spinosaurus, perhaps?

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.; ...

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.

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.

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.

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.

An illustration of what the Utahraptor may have looked like. | Emily Willoughby, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 3.0 Utahraptor ostrommaysi, which became Utah’s official state dinosaur in 2018, is ...

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.; ...