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Measuring at 12 feet in length and an impressive 8 tons in weight, paleontologists say they've unearthed a 152 million-year-old log from a site in eastern Utah.

Julie Hastings pursues love of paleontology with husband Daily Light report Julie Hastings has served Waxahachie ISD in the district administration office supervising federal programs and grants for 13 years. But in her free time, she digs for dinosaurs. One will notice her hobby simply by a glimpse into her office, as it is decorated with various bones, and photos of her digs, each telling a unique story. Julie was introduced to paleontology when she met her husband, Carson, who already had a passion for dinosaurs. The two were married in 2008 and on their first-year anniversary, they ventur...

Piecing together a paleontological puzzle

Known as gastroliths, the pieces of pink quartzite have revealed that long-necked sauropods most likely swallowed them (maybe to grind the tough plant matter they ate) as they migrated to their own Great Valley. “We interpret that these gastroliths were ingested by dinosaurs, most likely sauropods, in the Laurentian midcontinent and then transported in their digestive tracts to the site of deposition,” said Joshua Malone, a grad student at the Jackson school of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Austin, who recently led a study published in Terra. Before Wyoming or Wisconsin or hu...

Stones were carried 600 miles across the US in DINOSAUR bellies Ian Randall For Mailonline © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo Large lumps of pink quartzite were transported some 600 miles across what is today the American Midwest in the bellies of long-necked dinosaurs, a study concluded.  Researchers from the US explained that the giant sauropods likely swallowed the stomach stones, known as 'gastroliths', to help grind up food they had eaten. The gastroliths ended up being buried in Wyoming's Morrison Depositional Basin during the Late Jurassic, 155–148 million...