Cedar City ~ Scientists have discovered rare fossilized handprints of a meat-eating dinosaur that 198 million years ago roamed the shores of a prehistoric lake in today’s southwestern Utah. As the dinosaur sat along the ancient shoreline, it pressed its hands on the muddy shoreline. Left for humans to discover is a pair that is
University of Utah paleontologists this morning announced the discovery of a new dinosaur species, a creature with a duck-like bill and a hatchet-shaped head. This development stems from the discovery of a 72 million-year-old specimen, in the early 1990s in the northcentral Mexican state of Coahuila. The discovery helps reveal what Mexico was like in
New York ~ A bit of the Jurassic era will go on sale this weekend when a gallery auctions off a rare, 150-million-year-old complete skeleton of a dinosaur. The fossil of the 9-foot-long dryosaurus could bring up to $500,000, according to Josh Chait, who runs the I.M. Chait Gallery in Manhattan. The skeleton is being
A claw of a pint-sized cousin of velociraptor is small enough to rest on a Canadian coin. The dinosaur was about the size of a chicken. Washington ~ Imagine a vicious velociraptor like those in “Jurassic Park,” but only as big as a modern chicken. That’s what Canadian researchers say they have found, the smallest
The Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry, one of Utah’s best known excavation sites, will re-open for the season on March 27. The quarry offers interactive displays and exhibits, including a display on the excavation history of the site, a fossil preparation table, replica skulls of animals found there, and a mounted Allosaurus skeleton. Visitors can also watch
Source: by Scott Dunn, KSL.com Contributor – August 12th, 2012 Dinosaurs have made numerous appearances in popular culture, particularly the movies: Gertie the Dinosaur in 1912; Godzilla in the 1950s and Jurassic Park in the 1990s. There is even a dinosaur in the Dilbert comic strip. Where do they really come from? Some of them