Credit: Utah Museum of Natural History, University of Utah.
Mark Loewen, paleontologist with the Utah Museum of Natural History at the University of Utah, displays the new dinosaur species, Seitaad ruessi, which is derived from the Navajo word, “Seit’aad,” a sand-desert monster from the Navajo (Diné) creation legend that swallowed its victims in sand dunes. The skeleton of Seitaad had been ‘swallowed’ in a fossilized sand dune when it was discovered.