Topic: Brooks Britt

Utah's Dinosaur National Monument is best known for the exquisite collection of Jurassic-age fossils that have been discovered there since the beginning of the 20th century, but what is less well known is that more recent Cretaceous critters can be found there, ...
New species of long-necked dinosaur found hidden in slabs of Utah rock Fossils of a previously undiscovered species of dinosaur have been found in slabs of Utah sandstone that were so hard that explosives had to be used to free some of ...
Broken bones at Utah site show dinosaurs were trampled by own kind after deathA vast collection of broken dinosaur bones unearthed in southeast Utah indicates they were smashed underfoot by other dinosaurs shortly after they died, according to paleontologists.Brigham Young University scientists ...

Blame It on the Beetles

A team from Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah, has examined thousands of dino bones from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and found that flesh-eating bugs devoured them by the mouthful, erasing part of the fossil record in the process.. That's ...