MOAB \u2014 A new dinosaur dig site near Arches National Park could be one of the oldest Cretaceous bonebeds in North America.<\/p>\n
Experts in Utah say fossils found at the site outside of Moab, in eastern Utah, could date back 138 to 141 million years.<\/p>\n
They also believe the site, which officially opened for excavation in mid-October, could contain a new dinosaur species. They draw this conclusion in part from the site’s age, which falls between two geologic periods: the Jurassic and Cretaceous.<\/p>\n
Scientists hope the discovery will help them better understand a mass extinction that happened during the transition from the Jurassic to the Cretaceous period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MOAB \u2014 A new dinosaur dig site near Arches National Park could be one of the oldest Cretaceous…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":902734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1302,3811,3812,134,3729,3,3813,3814,79,99,1505,2987,3324,2986],"class_list":["post-902733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-cars","tag-classifieds","tag-homes","tag-jobs","tag-local","tag-news","tag-radio","tag-salt-lake","tag-science","tag-sports","tag-television","tag-traffic","tag-utah","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}