9-ton rock full of dinosaur bones still yielding fossils eastidahonews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from eastidahonews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Several iconic local species stand to benefit from a letter sent to Congress on Tuesday asking that the federal budget for endangered species protections be more than doubled for Fiscal Year 2022, from last year s $291.7 million to $592.1 million. 170 different environmental groups signed on to the request, which was led by the Center for Biological Diversity. They say that $592.1 million is the sum needed to make up for lost ground and address the threat of climate change to biodiversity. The Endangered Species Act is one of the best tools we have to stem the current wildlife extinction crisis, yet it has been chronically underfunded for decades, the letter begins. While Congress provided a modest increase for the [U.S. Fish and Wildlife] Service in Fiscal Year 2021, it fell woefully short of what is required to meet the needs of our most imperiled animals and plants.
Department of Natural Resources paleontologists Don DeBlieux, left, and James Kirkland look at a giant rock encased in plaster and burlap that is full of dinosaur bones at the Department of Natural Resources office in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014. The fossils were discovered in the Cedar Mountain formation of Arches National Park in Moab by the department. Possibly a dozen to two dozen Utahraptor and iguanodon skeletons will be discovered in the encasement.
Laura Seitz, Deseret News
SALT LAKE CITY A giant rock jammed full of dinosaur bones continues to amaze Utah scientists as they slowly pick away at it to reveal its secrets, unscrambling what may be Utah’s biggest single discovery of dinosaurs.
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