“I am the world authority on Utahraptor.” He said that discovery was made about 1990 near Arches National Park. He, Robert Gaston and Donald Burge described the dinosaur and named it in 1993 ...

"This is the first project in state history to take over 100 million years to complete!" Governor Spencer Cox joked at the ...

The deadly predator became the official state dinosaur in 2018. Weighing more than 600 pounds, the Utahraptor used its nearly 10-inch ... just stumbling across fossils that they would see near train ...

UtahRaptor State Park, the 46th state park, is now open to the public, offering everyone a look at Utah's ancient history and ...

It was millions of years in the making, but Utahraptor is now Utah’s official state dinosaur — or it will be on May 8. Gov. Gary Herbert signed SB43 into law Friday and it takes effect ...

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 ...

The Utahraptor has long been recognized as the world's largest raptor, but a team digging in Patagonia recently discovered the remains of a dinosaur that lived about 70 million years ago and were ...

Utah lawmakers are considering creating a new state park in celebration of a spectacular find of dinosaur bones. The proposal for Utahraptor State Park, approved by the state House last week and ...

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All fossils in the block are owned by the State of Utah and after preparation will be maintained at the Natural History Museum of Utah The Utahraptor is Utah’s official state dinosaur.

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 ...