0:00 Intro
1:38 The Adventure Begins
5:47 Day 1 Titanothere Beds
9:46 Day 2 Mammoth Site and BHI
15:06 Day 3 The Flats
20:45 Day 4 Concrete Hill
25:42 Day 5 The School
28:15 Day 6 Agate Fossil Monument
32:54 Day 7 The Highlands
36:56 Day 8 The Plateau
43:19 Day 9 Return to the Plateau
46:29 Day 10 The Final Extraction
48:43 Final Farewell
One project I’ve always wanted to do on the channel is going out into the field and documenting a fossil dig for everyone to enjoy. Showing you all the hardships and trials Paleontologists face everyday in order to preserve these fragmented pieces of natural history. While also teaching you about the animals that used to live on this planet.
Well in May of 2024, I was finally able to make that a reality! With the help of my friends from the other members of the Fossil Nerd Adventure Team I was able to collect enough footage while on our trip to the White River Formation in northwest Nebraska to put together this Paleo Analysis special presentation!
The White River Formation covers a huge span of the midwest United States and has layers that are dated to the Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene and Pliocene. But where we go is mostly dated to the Late Eocene/Oligocene. A time when the world was in turmoil as the forests of the Eocene were starting to recede, and mammals were taking strange new forms. Like the giant beast Megacerops who looked like a rhino but wasn’t, “false sabertooth cat” Nimravids, and a terrifying pig-like beast called Archaeotherium, which despite looking like a pig is actually more like a predatory land hippo!
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What will happen with those fossils?
err, how big is this formation? 26000 kms does not equal 10000 miles and both are silly big numbers. the map has a scale on it.
It is turned out yet which animal the skull belonged?
I like Pickle Rick
Very cool!
this must be like searching for mushrooms in the desert
I do love your videos. I learn so much every time!!
more support for science and archaeology. Or it will fade to religion and witchcraft
I enjoy this kind of thing so much, as I am hoping to be able to volunteer on paleo digs sometime. 🤗
So! How long until you describe the skull to us?
Thanks for showing what goes on a dig trip. Wishing you continued success in the new year!
We need more daeodon appreciation content
I think it would be greatly fascinating if you were to make a video about how you then go about getting the fossils out of the jackets, and how you clean them, get them display-ready, etc. We all want to see how your skull and turtle shell turn out!!
I don't comment often, but I also hope you'll be able to make more videos like this, as they allow me to live vicariously through your experiences on such digs like this one. Growing up, I always wanted to be a paleontologist, then my dream ended up shattered when I became physically disabled at the age of fourteen. I'm forty-one now, having found your channel last year and I've enjoyed your content immensely. Thank you for being awesome and I'm glad you didn't become part of the fossil record. Thank goodness for tough vegetation!
Damn, the shorts didn't show up in my feed although a subscriber. Will be looking them up now, hope they get more views!
Really great video again, thank you for that!
Thanks!
This was amazing, I would love to see what you can find year after year in the future!
I love that you help educate the children
Concrete Hill sounds like a level from a Sonic the Hedgehog game.
When will we get the see the fossils you found prepared?
Oversimplified and paleo analysis in one day I must be dreaming
Mind blowing collection in SD? I had assumed, for some reason, T-Rex skulls all went to top Universities for preservation and or display in high falutin', big city museums.
For a moment i thought it was about the white river in Arkansas lol. But that'll be interesting to learn more about fossils in Arkansas tbh.
Man, the last time I was at the Mammoth Site was in 2003, and at the time I corrected the college tour guide on the biggest known mammoths at the time. Parents were so embarrassed, but were later told by an old guy I was right. That old guy? Apparently a former curator of the Field Museum of Chicago. Sounds like a crazy "and that kid was Albert Einstein" story, but it happened.
Extremely envious you got to go there, I need to get back out there again someday.
Very interesting and thank you for sharing! Look forward to more analysis of the formation
That was really cool, about a period of time I know nothing about. I'm not as mad on dinosaurs as most people, (I'm a contrarian!) I love anything before the carboniferous cos it's so alien. A lot of these animals you featured were just as interesting and pretty weird in their own right. I'll have to find out more…
I always love seeing more of your vids show up! 🙂
I'm a sucker for these kind of videos. Field work was always my favorite part of any pre-historic documentar. Dinosaur or otherwise 🥹.
I know a place that😮 hasn't been escevated, everything ive found there is Cretaceous marine life. I have taken a few people there as thier guide and there is no disappointment.
Kinda lost track of you over this last year. I know it's been a difficult one but glad you are back.
I did not get any notifications of the shorts
You should come to El Paso so i can check out my spot, its around an hour from here but the fossils are everywhere. It looks like there were some huge floods back in the day in that area.
This is great. I've done some archaeology in Western Australia, though that was of much more recent material (colonial period). I particularly loved the Tortoise – they may be common, but when you have something so little changed in so much time…amazing!
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Thanks! this was very enjoyable.
Out of curiosity, did ye figure out what that skull that you found was from?
Cool video
I found a small fossilized bone up along the Tennessee river. I have no idea what it's from. How can i go about getting an ID on it ?
For the algorithm
Do you clean the fossils yourself when you get home? Or do others from the team do that? I would love to see that process documented. Thanks once again, fantastic video, very interesting 🙂