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Founded in 1997, Stokes Nature Center sits on the river trail at the mouth of Logan Canyon. After a complete renovation, the center is having a grand opening, just in time for Earth Week.
“After 23 years it was time for a little bit of a facelift and a revitalization of that space,” said Partick Kelly, the director of education at Stokes and one of UPR’s Wild About Utah contributors. “Because we know how many people are utilizing the river trail, we wanted to make sure that the space could fit this capacity and also the growth that we re expected to see in Cache Valley”
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Purussaurus was a giant species of caiman that went extinct millions of years ago, but this photograph does not show a genuine fossil. This is a replica model of a skull belonging to a different extinct crocodile species: Deinosuchus.
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In April 2021, a photograph started to circulate on social media that supposedly showed a person kneeling next to the skull of the largest crocodile that ever lived:
Purussaurus truly was a giant species of caiman that lived circa 8 million years ago, but the above-displayed picture does not feature a Purussaurus fossil. This is actually a model created by the company Crawley Creatures, a model design company from the United Kingdom that makes everything from movie props to museum displays. Furthermore, the skull in this picture was modeled off of a different extinct crocodile species, Deinosuchus, not Purussaurus.
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IMAGE: A schematic of what the authors think the landscape and human activity was like over the last 1,200 years in the Fish Lake Plateau region. A) 1,200 to 500 years. view more
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If you were to visit the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau a thousand years ago, you d find conditions remarkably familiar to the present. The climate was warm, but drier than today. There were large populations of Indigenous people known as the Fremont, a who hunted and grew crops in the area. With similar climate and moderate human activity, you might expect to see the types of wildfires that are now common to the American West: infrequent, gigantic and devastating. But you d be wrong.