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A desert landscape with striped layers of sediment colors, from auburn to shades of brown.

Tracking fossils to follow Utah’s past climate

Riley Black
science writer, Natural History Museum of Utah
September 16, 2021

A paleontologist and her team documented over 600 new fossil finds from the Age of Mammals, a record in the multi-decade Uinta Basin Project.

PIG-SNOUTED TURTLE DISCOVERED

Janelle Hanson
November 30, 2015

A 76-million-year-old extinct species of a pig-snouted turtle unearthed in Utah is one of the most complete skeletons of a turtle from the age of dinosaurs.