Via Deseret News:
... In Utah's arid, wind-swept deserts, paleontologists would be shocked to go an entire year without stumbling across the remains of a rock-encrusted dinosaur. Yet naming eight new species in 2010 was beyond their annual optimism.
"It's actually a banner year," said Mark Loewen, research curator and paleontologist for the Utah Museum of Natural History and adjunct assistant professor in geology and geophysics at the University of Utah. "Even back in the 1870s, when people first discovered dinosaurs here, there was never a year in which eight dinosaurs were named."...
