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Will lawmakers finally help free Utahraptors from the ‘megablock’?

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18,000-pound hunk of rock uncovered near Moab called the megablock. It holds at least a dozen adult and baby specimens of Utahraptor, the charismatic predator that became Utah's official state dinosaur in 2018. It contains a couple of plant-eating iguanodonts, too, and two skulls that appear to be a raptor species scientists have never seen before.

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Will lawmakers finally help free Utahraptors from the ‘megablock’?

One of Utah’s most spectacular paleontological finds — a pack of Utahraptors, and possibly a new dinosaur species — has sat stuck in a sandy tomb for eons. Will 2024 be the year lawmakers finally set it free?

3 months ago·Salt Lake City, United States

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