Australian researchers are giddy over the confirmation of the largest dinosaur that ever roamed their country. But a couple of Utah s top paleontologists say, game on.
Australian scientists have confirmed the discovery of remains of the largest dinosaur that ever lived there Cooper the titanosaurus. But Utah’s Alamosaurus is bigger.
Fossils hint that Tyrannosaurs lived in packs
New theory based on mass death sites in Utah, elsewhere By SOPHIA EPPOLITO, Associated Press/ Report for America
Published: April 27, 2021, 6:05am
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2 Photos A Hollywood dinosaur specimen that was discovered approximately 2 miles north of the Rainbows and Unicorns Quarry on Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah on Feb. 26, 2019. (Bureau of Land Management) Photo Gallery
SALT LAKE CITY Ferocious tyrannosaur dinosaurs may not have been solitary predators as long envisioned, but more like social carnivores such as wolves, new research unveiled found.
Paleontologists developed the theory while studying a mass tyrannosaur death site found seven years ago in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah, one of two monuments that the Biden administration is considering restoring to their full size after former President Donald Trump shrunk them.
Did tyrannosaurs live in groups? Experts discuss new fossil clues.
A new fossil site reveals a group of tyrannosaurs that died together, providing fresh evidence that these predators engaged in some form of social behavior.
ByMichael Greshko
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In July 2014, researchers looking for fossil turtles in southern Utah’s public lands found hints of a “monstrous murderer”: the ankle bone of a tyrannosaur named
Teratophoneus. Within hours, they had brushed through the sand between pinyon junipers and found the jumbled remains of multiple
Teratophoneus all of which seemed to have died in the same place, at the same time.
Scientists unveiled the site to the world in a study published last Tuesday in the scientific journal
(Mid-America Science Museum)
SALT LAKE CITY Ferocious tyrannosaur dinosaurs may not have been solitary predators as long envisioned, but more like social carnivores such as wolves, new research unveiled Monday found.
Paleontologists developed the theory while studying a mass tyrannosaur death site found seven years ago in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah, one of two monuments that the Biden administration is considering restoring to their full size after former President Donald Trump shrunk them.
Using geochemical analysis of the bones and rock, a team of researchers with the University of Arkansas determined that the dinosaurs died and were buried in the same place and were not the result of fossils washing in from multiple areas.