Fossils found in Utah indicate tyrannosaurs were social predators, not solitary
New research from paleontologists in Utah found evidence that tyrannosaurs may have been social, rather than solitary as previously believed.
Posted at 3:49 PM, Apr 19, 2021
and last updated 2021-04-19 23:03:01-04
KANAB, Utah â New research from paleontologists in Utah found evidence that tyrannosaurs may have been social â hunting in packs like wolves â rather than solitary as previously believed.
In 2014, Dr. Alan Titus of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) discovered what was later named the Rainbows and Unicorns Quarry site in Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument.
Scientists discovered a tyrannosaur mass death site there â the first of its kind to be found in the southern United States, according to a press release from the BLM.
This canyon is starting to feel infinite. It’s been hours since I left the open desert of Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, dropping from green prairie to red-walled valley to a shoulder-wide maze. Now sandstone surrounds me but for the narrow strip of blue Utah sky over my head, and I seem to be burrowing further and further into the ground. With every boulder I hop over and narrow bend I shimmy through this trip feels more remote. It’s like I’ve entered a rocky portal to a world where I’m the only human left in all this desert vastness, even if I only left my car behind this morning. Steep canyon walls block out the rest of the world; I might as well be on Mars. It’s amazing that an experience like this is so accessible, not requiring technical canyoneering gear or experience. There’s a stillness between the sandstone walls that even the scrub-brush desert above can’t match, setting this trip apart from any other, and I’m determined to sink into every
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BLANDING, Utah Interior Secretary Deb Haaland met with tribal leaders, elected officials and other stakeholders on Thursday as part of a Biden administration review of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments, a wide swath of southeastern Utah that has become a symbol in the debate over how to manage public lands.
Haaland said she intended to talk with as many people as possible to determine how best to preserve what she called a very special place, including pictographs she saw while touring the monument. She said she understands the effects the monument struggle has had on people who live nearby and acknowledged that Bears Ears belongs to everybody.