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Author Brian Switek held up the skull of a hyena and asked the attendees to identify the unique features.  (Kelly Watkins / The Signpost)

‘Cats get a peek into ‘The Secret Life of Bone’

Ashlynd Greenwood March 29, 2019

The Weber State University community was invited to learn about their evolutionary origins on March 28 with the 206 bones of Brian Switek. Switek is the author of several critically acclaimed books about...

The Utahraptor Project seeks funds to further research. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons

Dinosaurs for dollars

Chris Nichols August 30, 2017

Paleontologists in Utah are using crowdfunding to further studies on a Utahraptor fossil that was discovered in 2015. "The Utahraptor Project" launched in 2016 as an effort to help a team of researchers...

Pāhoehoe and Aa flows at Hawaii provide a small-scale model of the kind of massive floods associated with exponentially larger, more violent eruptions that would have led to cataclysmic changes in the environment that wiped out the majority of life on Earth. (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

I think I remember the end of the world

Cole Eckhardt March 2, 2017

I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about the apocalypse, and I'm starting to think it's genetic. Humans have been imagining creative renditions of the end of the world for thousands of years. Christianity,...

Evidence shows Utah as a Triassic park

Chris Sessions October 26, 2015

Most folks know what dinosaurs are. Thanks to the movies, most also know that some of them lived during the Jurassic period. Ironically enough, most of the dinosaurs from the movies actually lived in...

Why you mod my rex, bro?

June 22, 2015

Jurassic World: Dinosaurs alive and on view for amusement, perfectly reconstructed ancient DNA and Chris Pratt as the Ceasar Milan of Velociraptors. I can watch CGI dinosaurs eat irritating movie characters...

Science Weekly: Fossil pushes reset on evolutionary timeline

September 29, 2014

  Shuhai Xiao, a geobiologist from Virginia Tech worked with collaborators from the Chinese Academy of Sciences to help determine how, why and when multi-celled organisms evolved from their single-celled...

Rodeo provides an exciting night during Pioneer Days

August 1, 2014

Photos and Text by Jamii Freston   One of the most exciting parts of Pioneer Days is the Ogden Rodeo at Pioneer Stadium July 19-24. The best cowboys and cowgirls come from around...

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