By MARK HAVNES, Salt Lake Tribune

SALT LAKE CITY - Had Utah's newest dinosaur not gone extinct, it might have evolved into a highly intelligent creature, scientists speculate.

"Its skull is six times larger than other dinosaurs'," said Scott Foss, regional paleontologist with the Bureau of Land Management.

The acoustical coolness of a canyon breeze. The roll of thunder dissolving into the falling rain. The cacophonous recital of machinery, vehicles and jets soaring overhead. It's all taken into account in the "Soundscape Management Plan" for Zion National Park.

SALT LAKE CITY - The skulls of Utah's prehistoric lizards keep rolling out of the country's largest national monument with the two newest ones so unusual that when unveiled this week, their discovery will have a global impact.

SALT LAKE CITY - The "Mormon corridor," a 250-mile swath of central and southern Utah, is dotted with small towns whose history will be preserved through a plan to increase tourism and economic development.

CEDAR CITY, Utah - The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument has yielded new fossilized treasures that a scientist says could help rewrite what is known about paleontology in North America.

The ratlike creatures ran over prehistoric sand dunes about 190 million years ago. Now their ancient tracks have been discovered in Dinosaur National Monument in eastern Utah.
"It's an amazing find," said Dan Chure, a paleontologist with the National Park Service who discovered the site with George Engelmann of the University of Nebraska, Omaha.

KANAB, Utah -- Lance likes to bark and run. Layla likes to give and get kisses. Lucas, a la Snoopy, likes the roof of his doghouse more than the interior.And Best Friends Animal Society likes the challenge of turning these three growling combatants -- and 19 other pit bulls bred for fighting by former football star Michael Vick -- into cuddly companions.