Researchers look for more evidence of dinosaurs in Denali Park

FAIRBANKS – This summer’s discovery of dinosaur bones in Denali National Park has opened the door for more remains to be found, researchers say.

Paleontologists from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the National Park Service uncovered the bones during a July expedition. The trip also turned up new dinosaur trackways, fossilized impressions the animals left by walking through mud that later hardened into stone.

Pat Druckenmiller, curator of earth sciences at the University of Alaska Museum of the North, said the discovery marks the beginning of a yearslong effort to locate, document and s...