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Scientist Sets Backpack Down, Finds Dinosaur

by Pat Coate | October 23, 2006
"People think we've already found all the dinosaurs, but we're just really scratching the surface."
- Scott Sampson, Utah Museum of Natural History curator

Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument , Utah, USA - It sounds like an exaggeration, but apparently you can't set a backpack down in southern Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument without finding a dinosaur.

That's exactly what led a scientist to the discovery of a skull of a horned dinosaur that roamed the area 80 million years ago.

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