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New Discoveries on Display at<br />
Powell Museum and Archives<br />
The skull of this four-horned<br />
Diablocera<strong>to</strong>ps ea<strong>to</strong>ni (Ea<strong>to</strong>n’s<br />
Devil Horn Face) was found<br />
in Grand Staircase-Escalante<br />
National Monument.<br />
20 <strong>Gateway</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>Canyon</strong> <strong>Country</strong><br />
S<strong>to</strong>ry and Pho<strong>to</strong>s<br />
by Bob Hembree<br />
Visi<strong>to</strong>rs <strong>to</strong> Page are in<br />
for a treat this year. They<br />
can be among the first <strong>to</strong><br />
see fossils of newly discovered<br />
dinosaur species.<br />
The Powell Museum and<br />
Archives exhibit features<br />
specimens excavated near<br />
Page.<br />
The displays give visi<strong>to</strong>rs<br />
a glimpse of what local<br />
wildlife was like over 70<br />
million years ago.<br />
Amanda Bos<strong>to</strong>n is the<br />
education and outreach direc<strong>to</strong>r<br />
for Glen <strong>Canyon</strong><br />
Conservancy, which manages<br />
the museum.<br />
“This is the first time<br />
they’re ever being seen<br />
publicly,” Bos<strong>to</strong>n said. “All<br />
of these were pulled from<br />
the Grand Staircase-Escalante<br />
National Monument<br />
up on the Kaiparowits Plateau.<br />
It’s representative of<br />
some of the most diverse<br />
fossil finds in North America.”<br />
Displays in the museum’s<br />
Kaiparowits Fossil<br />
exhibit are mix of cast<br />
models, original fossils and<br />
a mummy. Well-preserved,<br />
highly detailed fossils are<br />
known as dinosaur mummies.<br />
Referring <strong>to</strong> the juvenile<br />
Gryposaurus hadrosaur<br />
mummy encased in glass,<br />
Bos<strong>to</strong>n said, “What’s really<br />
neat about this one is that<br />
it is so well preserved, you
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