Utahraptor also helped save original “Jurassic Park” filmmakers from a ... When Kenyon was asked who would win a real fight between the two dinosaurs, he says without hesitation, “Utahraptor.

The new state park is named for the Utahraptor, a dinosaur species made famous because it's what paleontologists say the "Jurassic Park" and "Jurassic World" movies based their velociraptors on.

"Covered in feathers, with a huge sickle claw on each second toe, Utahraptor looked like a pumped-up version of the Jurassic Park star Velociraptor," writes Brian Switek for National Geographic.

The famed Utahraptor (what the velociraptor in the "Jurassic Park" and "Jurassic World" movies was based on) was found here. So have a number of other dinosaur discoveries. "This is a gold mine ...