Explosion of New Dinosaur Species Out of Utah

From FoxNews:

… “Western North America has been a hotbed for dinosaur discoveries for more than a century, but the recent explosion of new dinosaur species coming out of Utah is sending waves through the paleontological community and revolutionized our understanding of dinosaur evolution on the continent,” researcher Lindsay Zanno said in a statement. Zanno is the director of the Paleontology and Geology Research Laboratory at the Nature Research Center of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/08/06/dinosaur-boom-linked-to-rise-rocky-mountains/#ixzz236cEP4b7

 

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