A Fossil Excavation Goes Wrong in the Worst Possible Way

[@richardthomas1566]

Biggest “ I told ya so “ ever . You know their was a guy that said “ don’t you think we need a Pallet “

[@CharlieRootsMusic]

Definitely would have undermined it little by little and added support fully underneath as I went.

[@scottyj6226]

Just weave a steel basket under and around those in the future

[@MrFantocan]

He could have repeated that for painfull 6 years until it was rebuild...

[@PlayMoGame]

*there

[@hydrocarbon82]

@@MrFantocan It actually took 3 years, but they forgot the 1st time and re-lifted it via 2 boards...so here it is the 2nd rebuild. (j/k)

[@chillindude5471]

imagine the feeling in your stomach as you watch the 100mil year old fossil crumble

[@MECH_BOSS2000]

Chillin Dude nothing lasts forever

[@TeaBurn]

You get the world's hardest game of a 3d jigsaw puzzle.

[@17hmr243]

i just did, dont need to imagine

[@Oneshot8242]

@@MECH_BOSS2000 'cept old Fords and natural stone.

[@TheAsthmatic91]

Did they carbon date it? Or was it that old cause it was in that layer? Or is that layer that old cause the fossil is somehow known to be that old?

[@mkfpv130]

Imagine how many fossils they've dug up with out even knowing it....

[@Gutslinger]

@ Mostly tree bark.

[@mr.stealyourgrill1190]

It hurts my heart just thinking about it

[@hugoshobbies1688]

What bugs me more is to think of all the fossils that are destroyed knowingly just because of short-term-profit. Don't forget that this one (like many others) was found in a mine. This mine is there to make profit and having to put the work down for several hours or maybe even several days lets the owner loose money. I'm pretty sure more often than not the workers are being told not to have seen anything and just keep working for the sake of some money. Unless the scientists pay them more than enough to compensate for the potential losses. And we all know that scientists are really rich people right...? It's the same with caves. Most caves generate in limestone. As it happens limestone is an important resource for making concrete and other stuff. As a cave explorer I know that many and more caves were completely destroyed and are still being destroyed worldwide in limestone mines. I have actually been in some partially destroyed caves in old mines. Like fossils these caves are millions of years old. Many of them keeping natural treasures that are potentially unique. But hey, we have to make some profit, don't we? What could be more important?

[@hereizzalex]

Coal mine has the most fossilized creatures, from foot prints to carcass.

[@slykhajiit2]

@@mr.stealyourgrill1190 How sad. I know, right? How dare them burn such precious coal meant to be kept in museums to be adored and marveled upon! "Look, son! It's cOaL"

[@JohnJ469]

Can we take a minute to admire the skill of the guy with the drill? A fossil is essentially the animal turned to stone and these guys can tell the difference between fossil stone and ordinary rocks. That's pretty impressive to me.

[@ashawyn]

Not to depreciate his work but I mean... Even the excavation crew could recognize that it wasn't just any typical rock. Takes endless amounts of patience and precision to do something like that though, which is impressive to me.

[@GMoney-B]

@@ashawyn well I’m sure it’s easy to spot when it was in the rock and a lot larger, but when it’s in tiny pieces and up close is where the actual skill and expertise comes in I’m sure.

[@louvretreekay12_]

ye so accurate he added a tail and a shoulder that weren’t supposed to be there! 😂

[@bestieswithtesties]

Are we sure that guy isn't just an artist who carved out whatever he felt like into the rock and now everyone just took his word for it and is like "Look a new dinosaur!" .... hmmm....

[@TheNtcc]

@@bestieswithtesties lol yeah, he could have carved a small Godzilla out of that rock.

[@daemonblackfyre6242]

Wait so they decided to lift the fossil by supporting the weight on both of the ends of the rock and leave the middle portion completely unsupported? I’m not an engineer or anything but...

[@bug5654]

Academics trying to do real work, can’t expect much.

[@elimarc3891]

6 years later they got it all together again.

[@manssupar]

Maybe they don't have enough tools.

[@ZeteticPhilosopher]

bug5654 ...sure, or maybe people should just stay in their lane. Ask a physicist, engineer, or technician how to move a rock, don’t comment attacking an entire field of knowledge gathering because a few people failed to move that rock without breaking it.

[@joshua41175]

I mean, I remember this last dig I was on we had to remove a sandstone face in small chunks and then I spent the next year cleaning each chunk.

[@typorter-pp6lh]

Imagine what size of predator must have existed for a 3,000 pound animal to require that much protective armor.

[@wilfdarr]

Armour with shoulder spikes. Though it could have been to protect them from their own species, like antlers, horns, or tusks. Bison have a thick hide yet no natural predators. It's a good question...

[@yeahokbuddy2510]

Wilfred Darr wolves hunt bison.... you never seen a video of a pack of grey wolves hunting down a solo bison?

[@SahilP2648]

@@yeahokbuddy2510 I think lions, crocodiles and hyenas hunt bison too

[@keltondavis4559]

@@SahilP2648 how do those animals hunt bison if bison live on the great plains of North America and not Africa

[@Skoomz]

@@keltondavis4559 ah yes, the amazing geometric planes of North America.

[@paytonpryor]

Man they should have know plaster wasn't going to hold a rock together. Paper only covers rock in rock paper scissors.

[@SahilP2648]

Lol exactly. The wooden platform wasn't the issue here.

[@SahilP2648]

@@RootVegetabIe it might be when the 'stuff' doesn't weigh multiple tonnes lol. That plaster is not going to hold anything more than half a tonne max. Its like wrapping your car in that stuff and expecting it to not break when your car hangs by it.

[@Hygix_]

flex tape should do the work

[@SahilP2648]

@@RootVegetabIe watch the video again. They say they plastered it to make it a single piece. It wasn't only for shaking. I would rather coat the entire thing in concrete or cement and then break it later than breaking the whole thing before moving lol. Plaster should never have been an option in the first place. If they had coated it with concrete, I bet it wouldn't have broken in half.

[@loekmunsters5968]

@@SahilP2648 Concrete would have broken aswell concrete can sustain high pressure, but when its been pulled apart it can only sustain a small force. Reinforced concrete however is a different story.

[@PhoenixRiseinFlame]

For anyone who’s interested, this fossil is in the Royal Tyrell Myseum near Drumheller, Alberta, Canada. I lived 45 minutes from the museum and I can tell you it’s an exceptional museum (possibly the best palaeontology museum in the world). The video of the fossil mentioned in this video doesn’t do it justice. Seeing the fossil in person is breathtaking. You can see exactly what the dinosaur would have looked like while alive. If you’re ever in Alberta, the museum is a must see experience. Also Drumheller has some exceptional sights to see including the worlds largest T-Rex (a massive stature you can enter near their ice rink), the hoodoos (prehistoric rock formations), and buffalo jumps (places used by the natives to run bison off cliffs; usually there are a lot of shallow caves to explore).

[@calessel3139]

I visited in 2006 from the US and agree the museum is fantastic. I would love to visit it again to see this fantastic fossil specimen. PS - the T-Rex is pretty cool too.

[@paddlefar9175]

They even took samples from it’s stomach area using a special microscope that has special software that takes a series of pictures and put the sequences together to get an almost 3D view of the stomach matter and hence they could get an idea of what it was eating: Ferns and pollen granules were some of the plant material seen.

[@PhoenixRiseinFlame]

@@paddlefar9175 I didn’t know that, that’s really interesting

[@goodfox9250]

You talked me into it. I am visiting the Alberta museum.

[@sniperbob1992]

Been there. Seen it. Worth it.

[@supernoob7064]

I was expecting the fossil to come back to life and eat him. That’s the worst possible way to me.

[@williamretnaraj9225]

Same here. I mean, come on. What could possibly be more horrific than that?

[@TomYourmombadil]

Idk I mean that would be pretty epic so for him it would be the worst thing possible but for everybody else it would be awesome

[@arnbrandy]

It should have at least unleashed an ancient curse over the world and such.

[@supernoob7064]

Hahaha corona meets the mummy

[@bnt7526]

Same thought xD

[@carllarsen6234]

This is what happens when seven supervisors try to work a job site..

[@DBT1007]

Welp. Don't blame them. They're just a mere miner. It's like when u ask someone that can't cook to cook. The result of course will be bad. Don't be harsh to them.

[@mosseblack8635]

Spot on

[@indiasuxks7100]

Carl Larsen Until you find out the smithsonian is responsible for covering up history destroying artifact life proof of giants in North America. North America has saswuatches as well. Look up Dennis Martin Look up pyramids in America. Ohio. Look up nice to Egypt lived in Grand Canyon The smithsonian wants us to believe the continents were once connected. I hate to break it to you it still is. When you drain a lake or dam there is surface under the water All continents are still connected You swim on the beach your feet is on sand. It's not randomly floating Smithsonian wants us to believe there are 300k active satellites but why have I never seen a satellite? Why when I google "photo of satellite" only animated photos. Why if the earth spins at 23000 mph, when I jump up I land in same place If I lived on a vintage vinyl record and played the record player If I jumped on the record player I wouldn't land in the same spot. If the earth spins so fast why does the sun and moon rise and set only one time per day?

[@lolihitler4198]

India Suxks take your pills my man

[@Littlestarsstorytime123]

It's no mystery that academic paleontologists are weekend warriors when it comes to field work

[@sjoak4084]

“Goes wrong in the worst possible way.” Me: *pictures the fossil coming to life in the middle of a field trip.* Was disappointed

[@michaelbross5687]

Lol same idk what I was expecting but it wasn’t that 😂

[@colbornfarms4849]

Very disappointing

[@cezarcatalin1406]

SCP682-B

[@TriggaHappy00121213]

How is that a possible way? Lol

[@jacobklein2658]

Literally same tho

[@shlagin9354]

Not only was the fossil on 2 beams, the beams were not connected which caused them to splay out. It's likely that it wasn't even just the weight of the fossil that caused it to break, it was the force vectors pushing outwards (due to the rope setup) which created tension within the fossil. Notice how as soon as the fossil breaks the beams immediately go outward?

[@scissorbeaksgames8208]

You are looking at this like an engineer, which is something they lacked.

[@blackdogadonis]

Basic load dynamics, yes...

[@shlagin9354]

@@blackdogadonis Exactly! It's ridiculous that nobody thought of this. A highschooler taking physics would know this

[@FknFastenau]

@@shlagin9354 not even in physics and I saw it from a mile away

[@kovelamanas9905]

I was beginning to wonder why they don't have a flat plate kind of thing underneath it and it broke into two.

[@aryaa7334]

We just gonna ignore it has a pair of side blades to take out the wheels of other dinosaurs

[@amarismorgan195]

Ikr😂

[@aryaa7334]

@@amarismorgan195 felt cute might customize my fenders idk

[@jameshauck9148]

Smh dinosaurs didn't travel on wheels They used treads

[@acoolsardine7728]

*elbows

[@yaihrherrera2156]

Yeah they just discovered that this species was hunted to extinction by another dinosaur that adapted to those blades it was called Tank-ceratops

[@Chief_5]

Lesson learned - support the bottom of what you’re lifting.

[@robertimmanuel577]

The middle.

[@campkira]

don't left the middle unsupport it a 100 million rock not a reinforce steel... i can see it break right away...it just too heavy..

[@deepstariaenigmatica2601]

i think it was inevitably going to break

[@Mael_Str0M]

7-year old me learned that the hard way with my LEGO Rancor Pit

[@lostpony4885]

This is cuz no more paper grocery bags, leaves us improperly trained for life.

[@hudsonhintze]

Big old fossil? Important? Put it on two stilts and lift it like cargo.

[@dudakoff1000]

how hard would it have been to just find a sturdy slab

[@ayman4540]

I don't know why the sent the stupidest people there.

[@mai.vancon]

They weren’t palaeontologists.

[@hudsonhintze]

@@dudakoff1000 right? like just a big slab?

[@hudsonhintze]

@Spartacus Maximus I immediately knew what was wrong and I am not that bright

[@rikkus67]

I am incredibly honoured to know the Executive Director of the Royal Tyrrell Museum, personally. Prior to going on public display, she gave me a behind the scenes tour, and I was able to meet Borealopelta before public display. At the time, they were still putting it back together, but the pieces were in position. Even though it is not complete, coming so close (I could not touch it obviously, but was mere inches away), you fully expected Borealopelta to wake up...almost like an overgrown dog. You can make out scales and skin detail, almost as if it were still alive. It is an afternoon I will never forget. Thank you, LM.

[@Cyber_Horse_Studios87]

“A fossil excavation goes wrong in the worst possible way” Me when I first saw the title: Oh, so it came to life?

[@JohnSmith-qm1gg]

Our reality isn't that interesting.

[@shaan702]

They would probably be so excited they get to study a live specimen and then they would immediately be killed.

[@threeomgthree]

@@shaan702 its ankylosaur fossil, if they were to keep their distance theyd be fine.

[@unknownguy2092]

@@JohnSmith-qm1gg reality could be interesting if we all had the courage to press the starting button😂

[@shaan702]

@@unknownguy2092 the starting button?

[@thingsstuff4611]

Did anyone scan him for a chip? I'm sure his owners are worried sick.

[@toocutepuppies6535]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Luke__Whelan]

Yeah I lost my dog for a week once, can't imagine what it'd be like to lose him for 110 million years!

[@tamfuwing1]

ROFL

[@VanlifewithAlan]

That gave me a good laugh!

[@kn3765]

Thank you, I needed that laugh! 🤣

[@iaronflame]

I went to this museum and saw this fossil. It was really amazing seeing it in person.

[@jonathanleyva9840]

What museum is this ?

[@Dean-nq8so]

@@jonathanleyva9840 I may be wrong but I saw a fossil that looked very similar to this in the London natural history museum a while back

[@austinbevis4266]

I’m so jealous

[@cameronblack888]

This is the stuff KZbin comment sections are for

[@bruceanderson3811]

WA

[@michaelnoble2432]

"Goes wrong in the worst possible way". I was thinking that someone died while trying to extract the fossil. But this is much worse, the title didn't exaggerate at all...

[@TR4R]

Bah! A dead man is nothing to pay for a fossil! Humans are expendable!

[@skurd721]

@@TR4R fun.

[@darthjump]

The fact that they only used two support beams makes me angry.

[@peaceable263]

Ya when I saw that they only had two I knew what was about to happen.

[@Nswix]

There's a reason you hold an egg that you're cracking in one hand, like that...

[@kasperkjrsgaard1447]

The fact that they only used support beams makes me sad.

[@koopertrooper7008]

they werent equipped with the tools to properly carry giant rocks probably

[@brertt8350]

And they had it on a rope system which cracked it like an egg, there's a good chance that one more support or just a different lifting method wouldn't have done that

[@VSLeader1]

3:00 "But no one has seen a nodosaur species like this" That tends to happen when you have to glue back together ten thousand fragments

[@blergjoka3116]

Lol how this comment is so underrated

[@bittubiswas263]

best comment on this thread 😂

[@RaphaelAnthony]

"No one knows how it looks like sooo It probably looks like this [[ *scribbles on a paper and draws two eyes and a tail* ]] ta da!" - him probably

[@satya982k]

Agree

[@cameronortega534]

Reading this while it’s going on

[@rogeliorodriguez8518]

Man, that is so cool. The closest we'll ever get to see a dinosaur. Blows my mind.

[@drsauce2574]

Nah where more than likely gonna replicate dinosaurs from DNA

[@guitardaddy6]

Dinosaurs aren't real. This is God's test!!! Ha jk

[@jackthequarterback]

Dr Sauce what dna? Dna does not hall a half-life long enough to clone dinosaurs.

[@quantumfluctuation5667]

this is fake

[@jackthequarterback]

Quantum Fluctuation lol no it’s not. Do you think the earth is flat bud?

[@Yosetime]

Oh I remember seeing the full documentary about this when it came out. I didn't recall the dinosaur but I did recall that particular paleontologist. Because he could not keep that smile off of his face when he talked about the initial discovery. It was the most wholesome boyish grin a kid would get had he found Captain Hook's Treasure! And I swear he really was crying when the cast broke during excavation. I could almost feel his pain! I was so very glad that it turned out so well in the end. A new species! Kudos to that Suncor operator who realized what he had on his hands and called it in before it was too late. I have to say, I've seen some of these giant excavators at work and it truly is miraculous how the operators can maneuver those enormous and clumsy looking buckets to within centimeters of their target! It's like a ballet dance and seems so effortless for them. Just as extraordinary work as 6 years of picking away at this fossil to reveal its secrets. Well done!

[@chinaman1]

The guy putting those pieces together better be paid millions for his job.

[@dominicstocker5144]

Why?

[@anxietyplague1221]

@@dominicstocker5144 cause this is vital for our knowledge of the past

[@couldyoushutup6541]

It was likely a team of people..

[@dominicstocker5144]

@@anxietyplague1221 but it’s his job

[@freddyfazbearspizza3131]

@@dominicstocker5144 And he needs to be paid for his job lol

[@Thunder_warrior]

Everyone here makes jokes about a dino getting alive, but I'm simply stunned by the amount of work the scientist have done to unveil this amazingly well preserved ancient relic!

[@NoxmilesDe]

They literally broke it in half

[@bartlucassen9145]

All those years of studying, and then grinding for 6 years?

[@tameronica]

ikr, even if the fossil was broken by the engineers the scientists were still able to put it back together.

[@annamarietparreno3948]

I just clicked this video just thinking : “ it’s gonna come to life! “ I’m disappointed I also don’t really care

[@Sarabheswaran7010]

Yeah, but if only they had tried to put another support to the middle area of the fossil, they could have gotten less salary for six years and wouldn't be posted in same place while given important subsidiaries by the concerned government department😉

[@icanbe]

The way the story is playing out... I thought someone was about to get murdered

[@ML-fc3je]

That or they discover dna incased in some amber and they accidentally released a virus

[@monks311]

Seriously lol

[@crazytiger800]

Feels like a certain John Carpenter’s film

[@cosmobirdie5766]

Yeah like a horror movie

[@ML-fc3je]

@@crazytiger800 wait what was that movie with an asteroid bringing a virus to earth and the towns goes into quarantine.

[@ashwinnmyburgh9364]

It is still one of the most extraordinary fossils I have ever seen. So well preserved.

[@soulmaster9481]

It was so good that I honestly thought it was fake.

[@daniellecozzetto5802]

Imagine the feeling in their stomachs when that fossil fell. Jesus.

[@skrutika7579]

Omg dude.....I'm a geology hons. student nd also studies paleontology as a part of hons. nd we handle evn a three or four inch of plant fossil with care or just put a layer of cotton beneath it..........my heart just dropped wen I saw this beautiful piece fall apart I can't evn imagine wat they must be going through at tht moment....

[@Miftahul_786]

Krutika Mallick You sure love missing out vowels in your words don’t you?

[@timgleason2527]

I nearly cry when I drop a piece of shredded cheese out of my taco. I can’t even imagine.

[@skrutika7579]

@@Miftahul_786 oh yeah.....😅😅😅nothing to be proud of but.....YS!😅😂

[@hmm6415]

@@Miftahul_786 makes you question that statement regarding care when it isn't even applied to a simple sentence 😂

[@ayysop1404]

I’m not sure how I’d handle discovering a 100 million year old fossil and just shortly after accidentally breaking it into pieces

[@ifyouwoooshmeyouhavesmallp7603]

Oh i had it happen with a mammothtooth. Its terrible

[@rhavenovoidderris4109]

I'd die both inside and outside

[@alexipilon8319]

If I was a paleontologist there I'd have an aneurysm

[@jacob01711]

Was the fossil really that fragile to the point they actually shattered it into pieces?

[@JustaDislikeButton]

@@jacob01711 Yes it's old look at the elderly they are fragile now times their age by millions and million of years could sneeze and they would crumble

[@hurleycapetown8420]

They called it dumfukosoris, naming it after the people who lifted it out of the ground.

[@shantanupratapsingh7807]

That's good

[@Cara-39]

🤣🤣

[@jeyaramsathees6128]

Kadavule

[@nourcheyennemillerson9520]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@rishonahall4463]

😂🤣

[@MLFreese]

Seeing this, and thinking of the amount of time that has passed since its death vs how little time we humans have existed for gives me a feeling of cosmic horror. Just think of the massive, carnivorous monsters that had to exist for this thing to evolve the kind of armor it had.

[@ricardoniz8857]

Imagine what else lays in the ground , what we haven’t dug up..yet

[@isaacb5968]

Imagine what other companies have dug up and destroyed, just so they could keep digging and making money

[@robjohnson8861]

@Muhammad Zain Geesus. And you are typing this as you applaud shelter in place laws, right.

[@lambertlum1087]

@Muhammad Zain Laws don't mean anything in the countryside where no one is watching. You just need to pay cash bounties that will pay better than the coal that is being scooped from the ground.

[@animalanimal7939]

I agree. There has to be much more

[@evanw2195]

Everything

[@EmmaJohnson-dt3vm]

It’s actually really cool to see in person, because you can’t really gauge how big it is from the video itself

[@gumelini1]

3000 pounds.Not much,size of 2 adult horses

[@noelanderson969]

@@gumelini1 about 4 tons

[@ambulocetusnatans]

Oh, you got to see it? I'm jealous.

[@robjohnson8861]

@@noelanderson969 so where in the world is 3000 lbs, 4 tons?

[@gumelini1]

@@noelanderson969 4 what?Oh Lord help us please

[@captainawesome4983]

What a heart breaker. The real story is how you moved forward. Brilliant display of determination despite the setbacks. Thanks for sharing 💜 what a beautiful critter you have recovered and displayed for the world to see....

[@robjohnson8861]

Appear to be quite the idiots if you ask me. Wouldn't somebody have thought it may be fragile and needed more support on the bottom.

[@cgaccount3669]

I wonder if breaking it revealed inner anatomy? Perhaps a blessing in disguise?

[@robjohnson8861]

@Cue ball Unreinforced concrete is how strong? Who new plaster is stronger.

[@Dikwili]

How could an entire team of professionals think that was a good idea?

[@warphonesS22]

Imagine how many fossils that mine plowed through already.

[@kingstrap8159]

It is what it is!!

[@orphanoforbit7588]

@@kingstrap8159 what does that mean?

[@lckoolg622]

That fossil may have been the only one in a 100 square miles. Imagine that.

[@vnd-4862]

@@lckoolg622 there could’ve been 100 in one square mile imagine that

[@lckoolg622]

@VnD There could have been 10,065 in 12350000 sq mile. Imagine that.

[@iankarfs4568]

Why didn’t they put a whole platform underneath? No just two poles, got it.

[@pommiebears]

The Elder Dragon they’re the experts....apparently! Lol. I stick to common sense, and it works pretty well for me, and you too, it seems. 👍🏽😁

[@afunkylittleguy]

bears they probably didn't expect it to crumble like that

[@Theeastsideoasis]

That was my initial thought lmboo

[@littlesnowflakepunk855]

Rock is usually more stable than this. The lifting apparatus they're using is very common for quarries because it allows lifting of a variety of shapes and sizes and cuts down on the load that the crane is having to support.

[@zoinksscoob6523]

@@littlesnowflakepunk855 well still, since its a special case how about being extra careful than usual

[@Cogzed]

Carl: “Hey Earl. Instructions on the plaster says we should have waited 24 hours.” Earl: “Shut up Carl!”

[@Savaya14173]

😂🤣🤣

[@boatboy222]

And it also says plaster must be a foot thick! "Ive warned you Carl"....

[@wbrosen]

@@boatboy222 instructions were not in Canadian

[@icemancometh8679]

Hahahahaha

[@aneshkumar4513]

Carl and Earl from GTA SA and NFS MW

[@SHOrTwiREDdeviantart]

'a fossil excavation goes wrong in the worst way possible', me as a geology student, i know exactly what's gonna happen... Seeing it crumble like that though, I would've had a meltdown and started sobbing.

[@danielkatona8778]

"Worst possible way": Nobody even got injured and they managed to restore the fossil perfectly.

[@TriggaHappy00121213]

6years of delicate work tho. I think the whole thing crumbling before them was seen as worse case.

[@adorablecheetah2930]

@@TriggaHappy00121213 exactly

[@pimwongsuthi03]

It's not about restoring it though. It's been there even before any of us were born.

[@zoinksscoob6523]

the title said about the excavation not the restoration duhhh

[@unkeptnorthernbloke5265]

Yeah it needed more life altering injury tbf

[@ryo0ka936]

In my neighboring city that's an excavation site as a whole (Kyoto) we often heard that construction managers hate to delay their schedule and would instruct workers to destroy whatever they dig out on site. As a young kid i was thinking that's impossible for such worldwide-known city and it had to be a silly rumor. Next minute my own town had an "accident" where a telecom company had a plan to build an antenna on top of what turned out to be a pretty important tomb from A.D. 5 and got snitched out by someone with a common sense working on site, though leaving the tomb unrecoverable by the time the city had to physically step in to stop the construction. It was a devastating news for me and I'm now convinced that the rumor was true over there as well. Also still hate that telecom company to this day and I've never bought their product. Edit: words

[@elenasullivan4522]

was it a local company? or are they big? (I think that’s ridiculous too by the way, deciding that you’re more important and structured that have been there for millennia, you’re tearing apart history that can never be out back together again. ugh.)

[@ryo0ka936]

@@elenasullivan4522 i didn't dig into that (no pun intended) but i'm assuming it's a combination of both given that the client was a nation-wide telecom company and they generally work in a chain of sub-contracts down to the local labor. I don't know in which layer they decided to full send it but I'd think that it's a structural problem rather than a sole company being responsible in the chain

[@runway5338]

@gunner Richthofen ugh, this just tears me. The lost history, culture and knowledge that we won’t have unless those relics are found again (most likely destroyed by the careless workers), and who knows how long that will take.

[@Goreuncle]

@ryo0ka It's "site", not "cite".

[@sonya9632]

Local telecom company found dead. Hit on the head with wacky shovel. More news at 11

[@asianthor]

Imagine what is under the floors of the oceans.

[@haraldhonk4650]

Mostly basaltic crust. But yes, on continental shelf there are tons of fossils.

[@zobblewobble1770]

Harald Honk They actually have found fragments of plateosaurus bones about 2km below the seabed when they drilled some cores off the coast of Norway in the North Sea. That area is part of the continental plate and was not underwater during the Triassic. There might be some marine fossils under the eons of marine sediment in the deep ocean, but nothing older than the Jurassic period since all the older rocks have since subducted under the continental plates and melted.

[@rsrt6910]

Probably the basements of the oceans.

[@chasegaming2262]

Frederick Rhodes did u get all from google ?😆

[@joltster109]

Terror. Pure unadulterated terror lies beneath the sands of the deep.....

[@DylansPen]

The incredible moment, "It sat there in the dirt for 110 million years and we watched it break apart in three seconds." It was a 40 million year old fossil when T-Rex was running around on Earth, and it is probably the most incredible fossil every discovered. The follies of man.

[@AndreaRoll]

So they had there scientists engineers and technicians and nobody Realized you needed two beams in the other directions to lift that up? They literally did what you do when you want to break an egg, and the result was just that. Unbelievable

[@michaelbronson7410]

Yup, and let's hope they've learned from this mistake so something like this never happens again!

[@bingo7799]

And the yolk was on them.

[@abstract5249]

Your everyday run of the mill scientist isn't as smart as you think. Most scientists aren't Einstein or Tesla. They're just normal people who got a paper saying their smart. They blindly follow whatever "scientific consensus" gets peer reviewed to conform with their postmodern neo marxist colleagues (climate change, vaccines, etc).

[@AndreaRoll]

@@abstract5249 perfectly spoken like someone who has never even attempted to even get a degree

[@abstract5249]

​@@AndreaRoll A degree means nothing without common sense and actual logic to make use of it. Just because scientists know how to pass a test doesn't mean they're smart. Look up Dr. Jordan Peterson, a clinical psychologist and academic who regularly exposes leftist bias in modern academia. Look up Bret Weinstein, Sam Harris, Steven Pinker, actual academics who have said similar things about their field.

[@monkeseeaction21987]

They should have named the species "don't lift fossils with two sticks."

[@beastinsight9825]

@Martin Ma Two Stick

[@Smileythesilent]

Someone suggested dumfukosaurus..

[@JeantheQueen6699]

-saurus

[@orban_furer]

as in the movie Tarzan they tear apart the condemned man with two sticks

[@junkman007]

My heart sank when i saw the fossil crumble apart like that. Extremely impressed you put Humpty back together again though :D

[@zayamane6220]

I thought it was funny tbh

[@compatriot852]

It's such a shame to think about how much artifacts/fossils have probably been lost due to careless construction or failed excavations

[@janep4652]

Or how many you’ve burned in your gas tank.

[@jrtheone1764]

Narrator- After 6 years of work the scientists have identified “the victim” 😂😂😂

[@codemy666]

@@RandomRoulett3 it broke in half

[@David.d.d.d]

@@codemy666 that’s a little more than half

[@codemy666]

@@David.d.d.d Depends how you look at it

[@kawaiinesscuresdepression2363]

Yup

[@Skwertydogs]

Even dinosaurs are getting in on the "woke" party. Now, everyone mortal animal is a VICTIM!

[@SomeScruffian]

When they said "Goes wrong in the worst possible way", I expected it to come to life and rampage tokyo

[@justwaiting5744]

Top comment

[@thelastkiwii322]

Too much anime lol

[@canarialurker5976]

I was expecting viruses

[@gora2497]

Me too hahaha

[@कश्परैना]

Same here😂😂😂🤣🤣

[@shab90]

I was hoping to hear how many pieces it shattered into and what it took to piece it together and identify the type of dinosaur the fossils came from.

[@hrpdrp97]

Got some high expectations for the smithsonian if you expect more than basic information from them.

[@calicoheart4750]

Imagine feeling like you broke something that was 110 million years old

[@hanhil3673]

6 years of that work requiring that amount of skill,concentration and patience. Wow. I tip my hat to you Sir, with a job profile I've never even heard before.

[@jacktether6648]

Imagine how good he is at lego if he can assemble that thing

[@samuelaraujomedeiros6682]

If there are no T-Rexes running around biting and pulling people, it didn't go the worst way possible.

[@DarthCaedus7]

Tyrannosaur couldn’t chew. Only bite and pull

[@tokumo2190]

they rip and tear until theres none

[@samuelaraujomedeiros6682]

@@DarthCaedus7 I never thought about that, but it makes sense.

[@ninadachrekar7215]

@@DarthCaedus7 imagine getting bit by a T-Rex

[@minmi9231]

@@ninadachrekar7215 pain as it shatters your bones

[@scotth6814]

Kudos to the mining company for calling the paleontogists and stopping excavation. As for lifting it, any engineer would have seen that you need to tie those two beams together first.

[@GMoney-B]

A 10 year old could have figured that out.

[@EGarrett01]

The construction company had been told beforehand that there might be fossils in the rock and IIRC signed an agreement to notify them if they saw anything.

[@BigpapamoneymanMVPtypebeat]

The construction workers probably were watching like “omg should we say something” “Nah let’s see how this plays out”

[@HonkeyKong54]

It wasnt the people who set it ups fault is was the crane operator. Also engineers are the worst fn ppl to have on any real work site.

[@xyannail4678]

​@@HonkeyKong54 Shut your mouth.

[@burtan2000]

SIX YEARS. I am incredibly thankful they did this and that there are people willing to dedicate their life to such tedious, but important work. I'd be bored after a few hours. But such is science: we stand on the shoulders of past generations

[@MrJdebest]

The Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology is a palaeontology museum and research facility in Drumheller, Alberta, Canada. The museum is situated within a 12,500-square-metre-building designed by BCW Architects at Midland Provincial Park. When Canada reopens , go visit this museum. It is a 5 star, world class, working museum . Great experience 😊🇨🇦

[@malan873]

Yeah it's pretty rad. Seems they've added some new things too when I was there last time so it's always nice to visit at least once a year.

[@restezlameme]

Thank you my dude 👍

[@ambulocetusnatans]

They have a youtube channel with more info about this and other discoveries.

[@Valley_view]

Yes indeed! Me and my older brother went in 1997 for a sleep over tour. One could sleep under any skeleton. It was awsome! beautiful experience. And we had the privilege of meeting Robert Bakker himself.

[@sinisterminister6478]

I've lived in Alberta for the last 30 years and have never been there. I'll have to get there one of these days.

[@KarimJovian]

....looks like he sculpted it himself

[@extraterrestrian]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@intosomethingsometimes2193]

Yeah thats what’s I’m saying

[@notice78]

@America First Its because the animal is inside the rock you see at first, they just scraped away the stone around it to reveal the dinosaur ;)

[@jenaroayala5731]

@@notice78 dont listen to these idiots they're probably trumptard flat earthers

[@thatonebackgroundcharacter2194]

@@jenaroayala5731 what does supporting Trump have to do with general stupidity?

[@f0rmaggi0]

If they didn’t find out how it died in the first 48 hours they never will.

[@ishouldntbesayingthisbecau1257]

wut?

[@tomoyatoko7262]

What they put together in the end isn't 100% by the way.. Many skeleton fossils are just guesses, many have been debunked after years. Don't believe me do your research. 👍

[@ubern00bkye]

@@tomoyatoko7262 that's true!

[@theguythatlikeslegos7708]

Acutely not 100% true, but it is somewhere in the 90%, and there are people more skilled then them, or people more skilled in that specific thing, so what I'm trying to tell you is it takes a men to find out. (:

[@zacharietelles7626]

I don’t think these 4 commenters understood your joke

[@Frostgnaw]

It took them 6 years to uncover the fossil?! Holy cow, I had no idea. Way more appreciation for fossils in museums from now on...

[@TheLyricsGuy]

It amazes me that dinosaurs actually existed and were roaming around the earth-possibly right where you live. They seem like some fantasy mythological creatures. Except they were actually real.

[@imjustaguy4340]

They probaboy look a lot more familiar with skin, bones look a lot difrent then what it actualy is, i mean look at whale bones

[@ΚώσταςΡωμ]

They are still here among us.

[@TheLyricsGuy]

@@imjustaguy4340 Idk man I’ve never seen anything that resembles a T-Rex. Imagine if those guys were still around! 😲

[@luismoref]

@@TheLyricsGuy I have four chickens in my backyard, sometimes it seems like four dinosaurs. They destroy everything and make strange noises.

[@scubasam4255]

i can handle there being gaint lizards with feathers at some point ........ it is the giant insects that haunt my dreams

[@pukemon7045]

Who's that Pokemon? It's nodosaur!

[@assimkiller]

I mean it looks like torterra

[@jimstanley5239]

They really didn't expect even the possibility of that happening when supporting it at the farthest opposite ends? Common sense goes a long way

[@lukeusdodd7130]

Such a rookie mistake don't even have to be a engineer to see what was done wrong. Should of had something to keep the two beams from swinging independently and there was absolutely no support in the middle at all

[@zippyrodriguez9632]

I think it was just a rock and the guy sculpted a dinosaur with his dremel.

[@HairFollicle]

Exactly Asking the real questions here🤣

[@Realgatba]

@Mic Tube how so?

[@atrece13]

All fossils are actually rock

[@abram730]

The fossil is a different rock inside the rock, so don't dremel the wrong rock.

[@Kentucky_Blue]

Ha! The truth probably lies somewhere between your theory and a complete, painstaking restoration.

[@lvlyflrs3736]

I cry for the pain felt by the workers. Let's have some understanding and kindness here.

[@JohnSmith-qm1gg]

They aren't use to that type of work.

[@veetatceetit3054]

And here a true human :)

[@MuhammadImran-mc2gq]

just read "A Fossil Excavation Goes Wrong" I thought it will attack scientists, disappointed

[@PtLeoJet]

My interpretation of the worst thing possible was a fatal accident, so I'm glad that didn't happen

[@vettekid3326]

My father in law worked for an open pit coal mine and every once and a while they would find an unmarked pioneer grave like that. Small fossils in the shale overburden were very common to find when you split the seams.

[@evanw2195]

VetteKid wow, like they were all buried in a flood, they didn’t mention in this video that this dinosaur had been found down side up, it bloated and fell to the bottom of an ocean

[@K3Flyguy]

It wet bloated as you claim, would it not rise to the surface and rot?

[@cink1461]

The bigger question is how are human remains found in coal that supposedly takes millions of years to form.

[@tyrstone3539]

@@cink1461 ancient men

[@cgaccount3669]

@@cink1461 they were mining within the coal. Either digging coal seams or looking for gold. They were not the same age as the coal

[@jeffjones6951]

At 1:36 If they had simply chained the two support booms together the tensile force would have been reduced

[@4th19th2]

@False Flag every one has a bad office day.

[@4th19th2]

@False Flag no one's perfect.

[@jeffjones6951]

@False Flag That kind of basic knowledge is not even learned in H.S. but on construction sites

[@jeffjones6951]

@False Flag Not saying that engineering can't be taught in H.S. (most often isn't; you were fortunate) but that a curious and observant construction worker can learn as much on a jobsite

[@northdakotaham1752]

@@jeffjones6951 could have been more of a basic physics type problem. The stresses created by the manner in which they were lifting.

[@the_infinexos]

Most incredible fossil ever found, laying for tens of millions of years, instantly broken by humanity. Yeah, that sums up mankind pretty well

[@k.w.churchill4397]

The miners must have been terrible upset. I felt their pain. But, its OK guys, and you did you very best ! Its is great now !

[@patrickstar663]

I'm so sorry but when it broke in half I started laughing 😂😭

[@campkira]

no half... but piacess.... i assume it alrady break on first try but the weight brak the case..

[@carloscrespo0715]

It would if broke either way lol

[@bibarel4665]

Patrick Star has a big wee wee, but its never shown in the big cartoon!!!

[@levistratus8644]

Lol...Me To.... First Thing I said was Vola Man Wrecked it in 5 seconds millions of years old...lol

[@bibarel4665]

Levi Stratus do you think the dinosaur wee wee got fossilized?

[@andreabennington]

I actually screamed out loud when it broke apart while being lifted. I want to thank the company and Shawn especially for stopping their work to see what they had uncovered. (Your name will go down in the history books now) What we have found out from this discovery is immense and we have you to primarily thank for that.

[@azizelmaimouni9427]

so they gave some dude some rocks, and he played with them for 6 years, came out from his room and told them, it was a new dinosaur NO ONE have seen before, and they believed him ?! alright i'm just checking

[@HazaHyperion]

No fossil excavation going wrong in the worst possible way sounds like this: “Scientist discover the new most deadly animal on the planet, however also discover that it isn’t as dead as they hoped it would be...”

[@ECCastiron]

“Scientist discover the new most deadly animal on the planet, Shortly later it discovers them".

[@connormitochondria355]

There are more comments about the fossils coming back to life and eating people than I expected.

[@lckoolg622]

Best comment from you. Gold Award

[@y.r4689]

They didn’t supported the “rock” well, but is awesome to know that they were trying to save something this important. Also the amazing work they did to put it together!!

[@DiotraxSecondlives]

the fact something went wrong seems pretty normal to me, i bet most fossils don't get found, get crushed, lost or whatever. What's incredible is when it managed to get solved somehow. Kudos to the ones who put that back together.

[@sksaikrishna280]

Me trying to sleep* KZbin: want to see a new kind of dinosaur Me : sure

[@samcruzznick]

Shows us the alien artifacts your hiding smithsonian.

[@honkhonk8009]

lol

[@DarkZenith]

They can’t even say Royal “Tie-rell” right. don’t expect them to know what else they have.

[@adamdaughtry4551]

Let's raid the Smithsonian, let's see Dem aliens.

[@ThestorytellerofKatunga]

Or the giant skeleton they destroyed

[@jaidyngdr966]

@Vaidant Kabra you're*

[@alexfrasca673]

i feel like “going wrong in the worst possible way” would be more along the lines of the dinosaur suddenly coming back to life and tourturing all of the people who found it before resurrecting all the other dinosaurs who then enslave and torture humans for hundreds of years and then destroy the planet

[@GeckyWecky]

That was very specific.

[@merissacooper6539]

Alex Frasca Yes officer this comment right here

[@msprettygirl984]

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i dont think dinosaurs would have the mental capacity to ENSLAVE humans. but torture yes

[@classy021]

This is the plot of Skyrim...

[@spythor1281]

The dinosaurs would get yeeted with modern firearms so they wouldn't last long

[@john-brady]

Astonishing it is. A marvel of a Mother Nature we’ve never known but for her fossil record. What an extraordinary day Friday, Dec. 19th must have been 30, 40, 50 million years ago…

[@Jin-Ro]

As soon as I saw those two wooden beams I thought, uh oh, physics is gonna happen.

[@shreychowdhary495]

Same feeling when my sandcastle gets destroyed by the waves

[@rajurizqi3878]

1:43 "Yup we are gonna be fired"

[@thebirdmen7698]

No they won't, they are doing that pro bono

[@mustafakamalrahi]

I can't help but think how many of these gems have been ruined by people who thought these were just rocks and kept digging mixing the parts in dirt.

[@justiceLaw0000]

The Starks would be happy to know they have ancestors in the North going back millions of years.

[@connormitochondria355]

Like with Iron man?

[@Dank562]

@@connormitochondria355 you know nothing

[@hellomynameishuman]

Obviously there should've some kind of cross support there.

[@kobeH40]

Really though

[@MoarteaLunii]

Exactly

[@connormitochondria355]

Yeah, that really needed to have been supported in the middle as well. Rock is heavy and with something that size, it would have a huge volume of weight.

[@connormitochondria355]

Square cube law, BTW

[@Triqkshot]

If they would’ve tied the beams together so that they didn’t spread apart below it they would’ve been fine. Absolutely no thought went into that lift.

[@kasperkjrsgaard1447]

Really? Why not one support beam and a hammoc under the fossil to give it something close to 90% support?

[@garyhamilton2104]

@@kasperkjrsgaard1447 How would you get a hammock underneath it without first lifting it?

[@kasperkjrsgaard1447]

@@garyhamilton2104 drill passageways

[@tomislavrom8906]

@@kasperkjrsgaard1447 Exactly how the Vasa ship was restored from the bottom of the sea in Sweden.

[@michaelbronson7410]

True. Didn't realise it at first until I read your comment. But the beams most likely did start to separate and pull apart as the rock was being lifted which would have been the root cause of the break. Great pick up!

[@riceandcheese1463]

Thank god they didn’t ruin it cause that’s a really well preserved fossil that I would love to see some day

[@tysontaggart7246]

Well technically they did ruin it, massively, it's just that they were able to put the peices back together.

[@ahmadnawaz9448]

Great discovery...but a small, soft & hardwork of the men is very appreciative. Nice work over fossil. Surprising...

[@littlemrpinkness295]

I was somewhat heartened to see how concerned the construction workers were.

[@sdmdrums9275]

Sculpter: aight this was just a dog but let’s make it spicy.

[@antonioducc4501]

Underrated

[@adrianbridgeman8769]

Do you think dino bones are sculpted.

[@brandonfoley7519]

Is that how that works

[@nobody-ko7mg]

@@brandonfoley7519 no. the normal rock is distinguishable from the fossil material. but they don't know the exact shape so it's not practical to chip away recklessly. Hence the slowness of the process.

[@thefisherking78]

@@nobody-ko7mg spicy dog eh Sounds tasty

[@joshdeets1584]

I totally came here expecting the worst possible way was that... it wasn't a fossil, it was just deeply resting

[@ahmadfakih3451]

Cause of death is pretty obvious, you just cracked it in half...

[@blulumen5420]

When you don’t realize you probably dug up the remains of a SCP-682 subspecies that got killed by some lucky prehistoric boi.

[@hellbusterdragon]

Wait, wrong Universe

[@franciscocepeda8416]

Cause of death : Rushing waters moved enough dirt around and it got buried. Should have had more beams under it to lift it. Looks like the bearded dragons of the American southwest

[@wilfdarr]

Except for the shoulder horns. It's a beautiful creature.

[@mr.givings8080]

Naah, just Noah's flood

[@eldarius237]

I can imagine the archeologist guy "thanking" the excavation team every day of his life during the 6 years lol

[@FortoFight]

I still can't really see how they identified it as a fossil.

[@floorteen694]

Ashkaan Goudarzee uneducated on the topic? Maybe. But I see absolutely nothing wrong with that sentence.

[@willpitts9957]

R/Woooooosh

[@FortoFight]

@@ashkaangoudarzee3415 I agree that I'm uneducated on this topic but what made you think I'm illiterate?

[@vencadir7994]

I suposse they are watching the same type of rocks and substrate every day. Once they found a focused solid stuff that had not sense there, they assumed could be a fosile. I suppose that they find a bunch of them (not that big and quality) over the years.

[@米空軍パイロット]

@@FortoFight I think the use of "illiterate" in this context is more in line with something like the phrase, "scientifically illiterate". It doesn't mean you can't read at all. It means you have too little exposure to the topic to understand it