Photo: "Amazing" Dinosaur Trove Discovered in Utah

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Scott Williams of the Burpee Museum of Natural History, center, and Western Illinois University students Sara Reed, right, and Alexi Stauffer, left, prepare the shin of a sauropod dinosaur for study.

The specimen is one of a "logjam" of fossils—including two meat-eating dinosaurs, a probable Stegosaurus, and four sauropods—found recently at a dig in Utah.

Photograph courtesy Matthew Bonnan

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