T-Rex Discovery Could Bring In Millions Of Dollars | Dino Hunters

Clayton Phipps and his crew find what they believe to be the bones from a T-Rex skeleton!
From season 2 episode 2.
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[@MissyMona]

I don't think fossils should be dug up for profit, but I do think that government bodies, museums and paleontologists should work together to fairly compensate this sort of work. So instead of it being auctioned off to the highest bidder the fossils go into good hands and the people who have it own their own land can still get something.

[@forexed8948]

I agree with you, but it can take weeks to just get 1 fossil out of the ground because of how slow the excavation HAS to go to best preserve the fossil, and sometimes that one single fossil is just the skull. Rarely do dinosaurs or marine reptiles get found in one piece, a lot of the time you'll find a leg bone here, and a vertebra over there next to the ore vein, it happens.

[@ricopaulson1]

I agree. America is one of the few countries that does not limit private sale. It does set us back when specimens go to a private collection versus something that could benefit society and science. But compensating these people while limiting millionaires from buying up these bones should be paramount.

[@MyDogsRipit]

The dumbest person in the world says

[@karinabrampt1556]

Well for a farmer, when drought hits, dinosaurs are it!

[@ansdguy1]

If you were a farmer and found a gold strike on YOUR land, would people claim that you shouldn’t resell it for a huge profit? Where were those people when the tough times came around and you nearly lost the farm several times?

[@keithrichardson7640]

Just finished binge watching both seasons. Hoping for new seasons as are so enjoyable. My favorite part was when Luke got very excited about brow horn.

[@nathanlittlefield1099]

How did u manage to watch it? Are u based in the uk?

[@karinabrampt1556]

What a legacy for his son.

[@anthonylilly6862]

We're getting ready to film again

[@MissKikiDee4Me]

I’ve been waiting to see new digs. I’m excited

[@n.mohamadajmal2806]

Hi mam

[@kathrynsmith3417]

I've watched both seasons of Dino Hunters, & I hoped to watch conclusion of this series, but seems this TV series was cancelled. Will we ever be able to watch the ending episodes of this TV series?

[@louisdoucet1498]

I dug on Jason's brothers land with my daughter and dug up a 4-1/4 inch t-rex tooth very memorable time.

[@ARDinosaurs]

Wow, 2 seasons?

[@eduarortiz8647]

Sue is my favorite dinosaur 🦖

[@forexed8948]

I've gotten to see Sue once in my life and she is a beautiful t-rex, but the most beautiful fossil I've ever seen is Dippy in the London Museum.

[@wiwingmargahayu6831]

zamzam water is tasty and amazing Sir

[@davidletasi3322]

Contrary to some narrow mined opinions dinosaur fossil collecting is fueled by profits by both commercial and academics. Every major museums and universities have sold fossils to other institutions for overv150 years. They do so quietly from the public eye! In the nineteenth century, scientists like E D Cope and O Marsh paid exorbitant amounts of cash to private fossil collectors in the old west during the 1870s and 1880s. Today, academics are required to publish papers to gain tenure and grants and dinosaurs, and rare fossil specimens are required to accomplish this goal that requires exorbitant cash to obtain. Grants are everything to academics, and they consider commercial collectors as a threat to their livelihood. Academics demean fossil collecting by amateurs but do not have a problem using them to their advantage when valued research of new specimens is required!

[@arrielgabriel4925]

jurassic park and jurassic world 😁👍

[@cryptocrypto8736]

Hope the find a Brontosaurus or so

[@jesusitabetances2435]

You do know brontosaurus is an invalid species Right?

[@mixstamike]

I've always found it funny how scientists have painted T Rex's as giant lizards when they're more related to chickens today than any reptiles tbh. There's also evidence showing they might of had feathers as well. But I feel like they're scared to change the perception of the T Rex and what it most likely looked like and just sticking to this version sadly. But there's an artist online who took skeletons and drew them the same way scientists did with dinosaurs and he used modern day animal skulls and it proves my point when you see it. He made a hippo that looked nothing like a real hippo but only used the skulls features to do so like scientists did with this T Rex for example. What's funny is most likely this was one big ostrich type bird but guess we will never know lol.

[@sergiorexgaming5339]

I don’t think they are closely related with chickens, though it is the most common ancestor. We have little evidence they have feathers, since it was likely not needed for them to keep warm. though they could had a little. I believe scales have been found though.

[@Riazor1370]

Chicken feet and birds in general have sclaes too. Prove that birds, lizard, and crocs have common ancestor, named archosaurus.

[@MissyMona]

What? Scientists don't paint T-rex as giant lizards. It was from Media like Jurassic Park that continued that line of reason. Rather, it was nostalgia for Jurassic Park from media outlits.

[@wotanstag1512]

@@Riazor1370 lizards aren't archosaurs, they're lepidosaurs a different branch of reptiles

[@karinabrampt1556]

Dino farming.

[@mtownz6215]

has this guy ever sold any dinosaurs? seems like no one wants to buy those million dollar dinos.

[@dingo9696]

He just sells them to private collectors and pretends that he sells stuff to museums in the show

[@laniedelacruz4993]

Filipina watching it❤😎😻🌷

[@alexvega1009]

stop promoting fossils for profit

[@formula112967]

If they don't do it for profit, who will take the time to find them and dig them up? people need to get paid. Do you go to work for free? do you even work? Your comment makes no sense.

[@yaslinegonzalez359]

@@formula112967 I agree to disagree rancher like Luke n many others like him who has a passion for dinosaurs and fossil hunting is a hobby for them with easy bonus money on the side that why they aren’t letting paleontologists there meant to do there jobs excavating because one dinosaur makes cash so instead there gonna do it themselves is not hard even you don’t need a Dino degree either to do this work but from what I see is not fair to the people who has a degree on paleontology they need money too basically there taking away there job back then when young I didn’t remember people being so greedy with money when people found something like a fossil all they had to do report it to any local museum and they will send out archaeologists or a paleontologist to excavate

[@esprado690]

You sound like the elitist university professors who are more upset because they don’t get to dig the sites or given the fossils for free. If you watch the universities have been more involved and involved in purchasing the fossils. It takes a lot of money and time to get them out of the ground correctly. Go see what happens when book worms try to dig bones out - they destroy them. Fossils are like any other natural resource, if it’s on your land - it’s yours.