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. The massive ...

(KUTV) — On Wednesday, the Utah Geological Survey (UGS) relocated an 18,000-pound sandstone block full of dinosaur bones from Thanksgiving Point’s Museum of Ancient Life to the agency’s Utah Core ...

From author Edward Abbey then to Brad Walker now, Moab's Utahraptor State Park has never ceased to amaze. And Walker wants ...

Our Lifetime Adventures on The PLACE takes us to Utah's newest state park, Utahraptor, just outside of Moab. Morgan Saxton visited the new Visitor's Center which just opened in 2025 and it will remain ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah paleontologists are asking people to help raise $100,000 so they can extract Utahraptor fossils from a 9-ton block of stone to find out more about this sharp-clawed predator that ...

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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. “I didn’t know we had a state ...

The ferocious Utahraptor is finely tuned for hunting prey. Their sharp raptor claws, speed and ability to work as a group are a terrifying and lethal combination, which could prove fatal for young ...

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 ...

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, like most ...