How Trump's cuts to public lands threaten future dinosaur discoveries Public lands This Land is Your Land How Trump's cuts to public lands threaten future dinosaur discoveries Researchers have made remarkable finds at sites such as Grand Staircase-Escalante, which the administration has shrunk John Hankla breaks ground on a site where researchers will pull a 77m-year-old complete fossilized turtle from the ground, at Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) and others recently filed suit against the administration for shrinking Bears Ears and another Utah national monument, Grand Staircase-Escalante. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Joe Sertich, a paleontologist, cuts into the rock to liberate a fossil at Grand Staircase-Escalante. In Grand Staircase-Escalante, he studies Tyrannosaurus rex-size marine reptiles from 92m years ago called pliosaurs, with heads more than 6ft in length. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Researchers recently filed suit against the administration over Grand Staircase-Escalante, seen here, and Bears Ears national monument.

Source: The Guardian January 30, 2018 10:02 UTC