Hunting Dinosaur Fossils in South Dakota Hell Creek Formation

[@TheFossilFiend]

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[@johannaliva5955]

I, like you, have had great success at The Hell Creek with Walter et al. Juvenile rex tooth, lots of cool stuff he has kept including a pachy hornlet. Thrilling. Watching your technique was very helpful. thanks for this

[@TheFossilFiend]

LOL, yeah, Walter has kept a few cool finds as well. Including a Packy hornlet found this year! You can see it in the into segment.

[@rickross2709]

Thank you for posting this great Hell Creek video,love it

[@TheFossilFiend]

Im glad you enjoyed it!

[@cooperwilliams9140]

Love the American Fossil shirt!

[@TheFossilFiend]

Its a great place for finding great fossils

[@dba750]

You guys are so fortunate to have places like that.

[@TheFossilFiend]

I agree!

[@davidthomas6859]

Great video guy’s 👍

[@TheFossilFiend]

Thanks 👍Glad you enjoyed it!

[@dmozonnersepicoutdooradven3524]

Great fossils. Thanks for sharing.

[@TheFossilFiend]

Glad you like them!

[@sabedoriaaciencia]

Muito bom mesmo parabéns pelo trabalho notável e excelente!

[@Elihoffs95]

Great finds! Really hoping I can get out for some hell creek hunting next year!🤞

[@TheFossilFiend]

Thanks, I hope you get out there next year too.

[@WightFossilTours]

Wow nice finds 💪🤩

[@TheFossilFiend]

thank you!

[@majidredstar1]

Hı.Thanks.It was very help full .

[@thesearcher118]

Brother, you need to hit Dinosaur Tracks, just outside of Tuba City, AZ. I put out a video from there a couple of years ago. The whole valley is FILLED with remains. We found teeth, dung plates, bone...

[@TheFossilFiend]

Sounds like an awesome place! Ill have to plan a trip there.

[@ROCKINWHEELERS]

Came across your Channel and peaked my interest so I subscribed. I am into Dino Bones. I have possibly a Dino Head, which I first thought it was just a dino hip bone and so I researched and the only similar thing to what I have is a Pic of a Dino Head on the Net. I have taken pics and will try and talk to a Geologist / Paleontologist?

[@FamilyTravelandExcursions]

Great video and great finds! Do you do a week with Walter? I plan on going out there with him sometime when my gals get older.

[@TheFossilFiend]

thank you. The trips depend on my time available. Some times its only a couple days, but I try to make the trips as long as possible! My son and I have been going since 2009, and start planning the next trip as soon as we get home.

[@batuandanfosilpurba5206]

Wow

[@TheFossilFiend]

👍

[@Westo_ire]

Hey I was just wondering if you tell me the name of song at 7.15 thanks

[@TheFossilFiend]

Sorry, this is one of the royalty free musicoptions that comes with my video editor. I dont have the core file any longer to look up the individual elements, and there are thousands of music files.

[@stripeybeast]

I’m a fossil collector in Dallas but hunting Hell Creek or Lance is a huge bucket list item for me. How do you go about getting permission?

[@TheFossilFiend]

Well, you can go the traditional route of map research, tracking down the land owner, then trying to contact them for permission (if their land isnt already under contract), OR you can go the easy route and contact PaleoAdventures as they already have permissions.

[@stripeybeast]

@@TheFossilFiend awesome thank you

[@necmettincelik7457]

❤

[@beckyumphrey2626]

Awesome. Do you get paid to.hunt fossils?

[@TheFossilFiend]

lol, I wish I could get paid to hunt fossils! Sadly, I do it all on my own expense.

[@chillguys1239]

Hey I'm pretty young and I love paleontology and fossils do you have any places that are good for finding Dino fossils for beginners?

[@TheFossilFiend]

This is a pretty common question. Tell what area/state you live in and I'll work on a video on how to find areas!

[@chillguys1239]

@@TheFossilFiend i live in canada ontairo! i can go to any part of ontario i heard alberta is good but people own the land there already so lol

[@VaraLaFey]

@@chillguys1239 Ranchers "own" the land in USA locations too, just S of Alberta. More accurately they own some and lease other areas from the govt; those leases can stay with a family for generations. Knock on the ranchers' door and ask if you can fossil hunt on their land (they consider it theirs whether owned or leased). All those I've met in North Dakota are very cool people. They sometimes show you their own finds from the greater area which are often museum quality pieces. The US Geologic Survey has Mineral Rights maps and Surface Rock Formation maps (I forget the name of these) - I doubt any of this is very different in Canada. Google those things to find your own govt agencies. Fossil hunting in productive areas is serious fun. Be sure to have lots of water, sunscreen, and gasoline. Maybe a snakebite kit and general first aid. Take the same kind of hand tools you see in Fossil Fiend's vid, but be careful with the stabilizers (the stuff in spouts they pour onto fossils to hold them together for transport) because it's easy to put more of it onto a fossil than you want to clean off of it when you get it home. I actually bought medical needles and put a super-low viscosity superglue or Butvar (I forget which) in them so I could stabilize bones that had tiny cracks but were still in one proper piece - you can watch the fluid spread into cracks you didn''t even notice. Bring packing materials like plastic tubs and newspaper to wad up, or bubble wrap or whatever. And a 4-wheel drive vehicle with decent clearance, else your exploration range is pretty limited. Fossil Fiend will have good ideas in his vids.

[@katjygruben6546]

What do you do with the bones ??

[@TheFossilFiend]

repair, prep, and display.

[@ryancieszkowski4308]

Why the gloves? Wouldn't lack of dexterity damage the fossils more than just grabbing them with your actual fingers? Also great finds at Tooth Draw (Leonard Licking Ranch), I collected there a lot with Paleo Prospectors a while ago. Got some great theropod teeth!

[@TheFossilFiend]

you can always take the gloves off when needed, but they are great for protecting from small cuts and scrapes from slipping tools, sharp edged matrix bits, falls, etc while prospecting and exposing the fossils.

[@pkxdsisters7021]

I seen a dinosaur one time in the building

[@bretthess6376]

Wow, the background music/noise is really annoying.

[@TheFossilFiend]

Sorry that it wasnt to your personal taste. background music is always subjective and unfortunately I can't please everyone. If you have suggestions for royalty-free music I could use on future videos I'd be happy to check them out.

[@VaraLaFey]

@@TheFossilFiend HA! Now I wish I'd finished writing (and had recorded) my Hell Creek song. You'd certainly be welcome to use it free if it fully existed. You see, yeeears ago as a personal indulgence (not meant for live shows) I wrote a doom-metal piece that kinda mapped the actual fossil hunting experience onto various mythologies and metal imagery. "....So long ago / the moon was nearer and the stars in a different place / Imagine Maastrichtian space / Now you're in an ancient grave / and you're walking on bones / Medusa flowed in a wave / and turned them all to stone...." It's way too long and it's all like that (and it's all copyrighted by me 1999). "Clear liquid falls on the sand / just protecting the dead / Steel exhumes all from the land / for the journey ahead." Yeah. Paleo + mythology + doom metal imagery = hypernerd. I should win an anti-prize or something. 😕

[@TheFossilFiend]

@@VaraLaFey sounds like it would have been great!

[@VaraLaFey]

@@TheFossilFiend Well, it was certainly a different lyric theme than anything I ever heard.

[@VaraLaFey]

@@TheFossilFiend And I wasn't bothered by your background music at all.