Topic: Jim Kirkland
At the end of last summer, on my way out of Salt Lake City, Utah, I encountered a dinosaur I had never seen before in the halls of the Utah Museum of Natural History. Described by paleontologists Jim Kirkland and Donald de ...
New 'fingerprinting' technique may help nab fossil poachers on public landsLooters who plundered one of Utah's newest troves of dinosaur bones got away with ribs, vertebrae and part of an ancient legbone they had to bust apart to remove. "It's like pieces ...
Paleontologists hope plant fossils in St. George, Utah, illuminate life in early JurassicPaleontologists are sifting through the soil of an excavated lot in search of ancient plants, the only ones from the early Jurassic period found so far in western North America.The ...
Palaeontologists have caught a cousin of the carnivorous Velociraptor in the process of turning vegetarian. Jim Kirkland, state palaeontologist at the Utah Geological Survey, US, and colleagues unearthed a mass graveyard containing some 2000 identifiable bones in a Utah dig, of which ...