Utah is perhaps best known for its gorgeous desert towns and national parks, but it also recently made headlines due to a ...

Scientists have discovered that an "alien plant" first found near a Utah ghost town 55 years ago doesn't appear to be related ...

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A field crew found the first tritylodontid bonebed in the Navajo Sandstone, said the National Park Service NPS / Brian Engh The recent discovery of extremely rare fossils from the Early Jurassic ...

An “alien plant” fossil discovered 55 years ago just outside of an abandoned town in Utah has no relation to any currently existing or extinct species, scientists revealed in a study last month.

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BYU's Paleontology Museum holds one of the largest fossil collections in the world. Many of the classic dinosaurs most people know about were found in Utah, according to Boisvert. (Cameron Cook) ...

An old fossil discovery is providing new information to scientists nearly 40 years later. A fossil bone found in a sand pit near Vernal, Utah, in the 1980s has turned out to be an older-than-expected ...

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Ten youth from Utah filed a lawsuit against the Utah Division of Oil, Gas, and Mining, arguing fossil fuel development is ...

A new species of reptile may have been found deep in the back country of southeast Utah’s Canyonlands National Park. The fossil is “a rare ~290 million year old Permian-aged skeleton” and likely ...