How Trump's cuts to public lands threaten future dinosaur discoveries

Researchers have made remarkable finds at sites such as Grand Staircase-Escalante, which the administration has shrunkThe paleontologist Rob Gay wasn’t expecting to find anything significant that day. He and a few of his students were scouting in the southeast Utah badlands in summer 2016 when they came across a hillside littered with hundreds of bones. Scattered haphazardly and protruding from the earth, they were the remains of of prehistoric reptiles that lived 220m years ago, at the sa