A Utahraptor skull reconstruction is displayed during a press conference at the Capitol in Salt Lake City on Friday, Feb. 14, 2020, to discuss HB322, which would create Utahraptor State Park in ...

Not very much of it was found—the raptor was described on the basis of a large second toe claw, hand claws, parts of the skull, a tibia and a few vertebrae—but what was recovered confirmed ...

Orr motioned to a Utahraptor skull hidden in some of the redrock. ... The $1.6 million art piece will feature prominently in the Utah State Capitol's North Building, ...

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.

Utah is one step closer to designating its next state park \u2014 and naming it after the vicious predator that starred in \u201cJurassic Park.\u201d ...

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.

Utahraptor is the state’s 46th state park, noted Ferry, and he thanked a number of people who were instrumental in bringing it to fruition after years of setbacks, many prompted by the pandemic.

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 now ...