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) ...

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 ...

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

MOAB, Utah (AP) — Utah paleontologists are trying to figure out how to bring a large collection of dinosaur fossils near Moab back to a laboratory. Scientists have been working to carve out a giant ...

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.

See a mammoth tusk and tooth on permanent display in the museum. The Museum's exhibits and collections feature mammoth skulls ...

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 ...

A group of researchers in Utah discovered rare fossils of herbivorous mammal relatives that lived in the area about 180 million years ago, according to the National Park Service. The paleontologists ...

The fossil remains of fragile jellyfish that lived some 505 million years ago have been discovered in the rocks of a Utah mountainside that once lay at the bottom of a shallow tropical sea. The ...

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