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 shrunk

The 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 same time as the earliest dinosaurs.