Department of Natural Resources paleontologists Don DeBlieux, left, and James Kirkland look at a giant rock encased in plaster and burlap that is full of dinosaur bones at the Department of Natural Resources office in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014. The fossils were discovered in the Cedar Mountain formation of Arches National Park in Moab by the department. Possibly a dozen to two dozen Utahraptor and iguanodon skeletons will be discovered in the encasement.
Laura Seitz, Deseret News
SALT LAKE CITY A giant rock jammed full of dinosaur bones continues to amaze Utah scientists as they slowly pick away at it to reveal its secrets, unscrambling what may be Utah’s biggest single discovery of dinosaurs.
SALT LAKE CITY Utah s culture and arts industry lost over $77 million from the restrictions placed on the public due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a new report shows, but officials are holding out hope for a better year. When we closed the museum in March 2020 to help slow the spread of COVID-19, we thought we d be dark for just a week or two. By mid-April, however, it was clear our temporary closure was anything but and we began to prepare for an extended shutdown, according to Jason Cryan, executive director of the Natural History Museum of Utah.
According to the 2020 State of Utah Culture Report presented last week by the Utah Cultural Alliance and the Utah Department of Heritage and Arts, about $77 million in arts-related revenue was lost between March and November 2020. State data also showed more than 3,000 jobs in the culture industry were lost or affected by COVID-19, and about 22,000 independent contractors lost work.
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Fossil contents of Utahraptor megablock double amount originally found
Fossils will eventually form an exhibit featuring a pack of Utahraptors
Jim Kirkland / Utah Geological Survey
The most recent Utahraptor skull reconstruction by Rob Gaston of Gaston Design incorporating some of the new material from the Megablock.