A little more than a year ago, in the corner of a Salt Lake City tattoo parlor spattered with sci-fi ephemera and fantasy art, I watched as artist Jon McAffee inked an Allosaurus onto my arm.

Curt Bramble — why Utah had made the Allosaurus its official state fossil. “I didn’t know we had a state fossil,” Bramble says. So Kenyon launched into a long argument about why Utahraptor ...

Japanese firm On-Art Corp. unveiled human-operated robotic models of raptors, an allosaurus and a Tyrannosaurus rex, in a performance at a hotel hall. A robotic T. rex performs during its ...