Dinosaurs

Tuesday's post about flood preparations and the Ogden dinosaur park was a year-old, unpublished draft that was posted mistakenly.

Lokiceratops rangiformis is a new species of horned dinosaur recently discovered in northern Montana. The skull and a sculpture of its head are now on display at the Natural History Museum of Utah.

I’m going to go beyond birds a few hundred million years to their precursors, who thrived long before our feathered mini-dinosaurs evolved. These ancient beings continue to thrive to this day.

In other news: Elephants Christie and Zuri have arrived at their new home after leaving Utah’s Hogle Zoo earlier this week. The elephants’ new home is at the Kansas City Zoo and Aquarium in Missouri.

In other news, the Governor's Office released its Rural Affairs Quarterly Report and Intermountain Health donated $3.5 million to homeless and housing advocacy groups.

Fireflies can be glimpsed for just a few short weeks this summer during their mating season.

In their picture book “Everywhere, Wonder,” Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr challenge readers to find a story in places and phenomena both ordinary and extraordinary.Fossils provide hints to the size and shape of prehistoric life, but they leave a lot of the colors and textures to the imagination.

Not all bones become fossils. So you can imagine the excitement in the scientific community when a fossil bed containing more than 12,000 dinosaur bones were discovered 30 miles south of Price.

The Mill Canyon Dinosaur Tracksite near Moab is ranked the seventh most important preserved tracksite in the United States. Last week, reports of damage to the site by BLM construction emerged. To halt more potential damages, The Center of Biological Diversity issued a cease-and-desist letter to the BLM on January 31st.

Utah is well known for its dinosaur fossils, but why do we have so many?Randy Irmis, a paleontologist at the Utah Natural History Museum, spends a lot of…