Some weekend getaways barely need selling, and a May trip to Fruita is one of them. On the western side of the state, this ...

RED FLEET STATE PARK, Utah - A three-toed footprint appeared in the rock, slightly longer than my hiking boot. The outlines weren’t crisp, but the impression was deep enough to collect sand grains and ...

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Until now, estimating how old a dinosaur was when it died has been a fairly simple process — just count up the growth rings in its fossilized bones. "We always thought that those rings were formed ...

Paleontologists have often determined how old a dinosaur was by counting the growth rings in its bones. Just like with trees, it was thought that each ring corresponded to a single year of age. But ...