(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.
Commentary: The Women of Bears Ears speak
When the land calls you answer. When your mother calls you answer.
(Rick Bowmer | AP, pool) U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland tours near ancient dwellings along the Butler Wash trail during a visit to Bears Ears National Monument Thursday, April 8, 2021, near Blanding.
By Elouise Wilson, Mary R. Benally, Ahjani Yepa and Cynthia Wilson | For The New York Times
| April 26, 2021, 7:00 p.m.
We are among the Women of Bears Ears Indigenous women who support our families and communities in the protections of ancestral lands. We come from Diné, Nuche, Pueblo and other allied Native Nations. From these Southwestern lands, twin buttes rise; they are known as Bears Ears.
If a Bears Ears monument, larger or smaller, wonât guarantee cultural sites arenât trashed, what will?
More money and more resources will help manage the growing crowds, but real protection will rest with more education and hikers following the rules.
(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) A ceremonial kiva, one of the many Moon House structures, May 4, 2010.
Moon House is a Pueblo III-period cliff dwelling located in southeastern Utah on Cedar Mesa in McLoyd s Canyon. It was created by ancestral Puebloan peoples between A.D. 1150 and 1300.
  | April 25, 2021, 12:00 p.m.
Cedar Mesa ⢠If you arrive at the South Fork Mule Canyon trailhead early enough on an April morning that a light frost is still visible on the soil, youâd hardly know itâs one of the most popular hikes in Bears Ears National Monument.
The authors are among the founding members of WomenOfBearsEars.org., which supports restoration of Bears Ears National Monument.
April 25, 2021, 11:00 a.m. ET
We are among the Women of Bears Ears Indigenous women who support our families and communities in the protections of ancestral lands. We come from Diné, Nuche, Pueblo and other allied Native Nations. From these Southwestern lands, twin buttes rise; they are known as Bears Ears.
We have been birthed into these lands. The umbilical cords of our ancestors are buried here. Our genealogies are intertwined.
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Elouise Wilson.Credit.Rachael Cassells
Our clans are passed on through our mothers. We are matrilineal societies that carry the bloodlines of our people. The Clan Mothers have always tended to the landscapes that gave them birth for hundreds of generations. Our ancestors are rooted here. We are grounded here.