Dinosaurs, Deserts, and Helicopters: Paleontology in the Grand Staircase of Southern Utah

Lecture by Dr. Randall Irmis, Paleontology Curator, Natural History Museum of Utah

Recorded: June 12, 2013 

 

How do you excavate dinosaurs in a place so remote that it was the last part of the contiguous United States to be mapped? Dr. Randy Irmis talked about the spectacular new discoveries that the Natural History Museum of Utah has made over the last decade in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument—including uncovering new dinosaur species that are part of a previously unknown ecosystem.