1. Initially Utahraptor would have replaced another dinosaur, the Allosaurus, as the state's official fossil, but it was decided that Utahraptor would be another symbol of the state.

2. Like other dromaeosaurids, Utahraptor had large curved claws on their second toes.

3. I happen to know more on the subject of palaeontology than many might credit, because my eldest daughter was Utahraptor-obsessed.