Fossils

The geology of Southeastern Utah includes many famous formations. In addition to their beauty, to the trained eye, they also include the history of eras and extinctions.

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 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.

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…