The Hunt For The Great American Dinosaurs Cemeteries | Time Team | Absolute History

[@trishriederer1857]

The way Tony pronounces Montana.. Love it

[@deborahdufel1664]

I love how Phil and Tony are flipping through their book. 😊

[@susannashepard5074]

It’s cracking me up!!! When he cracks up at the duck bill dinosaur 😂😂😂

[@alanatolstad4824]

This was thrilling, and so surreal...to see Phil & Tony in America!

[@Sheila-G]

Love Tony and Phil they've always been my favorites! I think it's ironic they had to come to America for the oldest thing they've ever found. ❤

[@Nikki_Catnip]

Tony and Phil are too precious. ❤

[@kjbuchanan63]

they are absolute treasures!!

[@rebekahakrey1768]

This episode has me in stitches! I don’t know what’s funnier, sir Tony, trying to pronounce Montana or Phil pulling out a kids picture book to compare dinosaurs. They are doing what they do best archaeology, but seem to be lost alien country.😂

[@catvonderahe1836]

I love how Tony says MONTAUNA.

[@carolcalkins5329]

Time Tean are running around in my backyard. Crazy to see these dudes in places that I know and love!

[@thelandlord111]

It’s good to see Baldrick not only survived the war but went on to make these awesome documentaries.

[@EyreAffair]

In regards to "B. rex": The specimen was fully excavated in 2003. In 2005, a scientific study of "B. rex" determined that she was not only a young female Tyrannosaurus Rex, but that she was producing eggs when she died between the ages of 16 and 20.

[@gaylegoodman9097]

Wow 😮!

[@lakrids-pibe]

A pregnant teenager in Montana

[@seanpaula8924]

Thanks for the update!

[@EyreAffair]

@@seanpaula8924 You're welcome!

[@andersandersen6295]

@@lakrids-pibe Yeah i think that pretty common :)

[@pattiemooreschmidt5402]

Every time Tony says Montahna I smile. Its too funny

[@luthahvelken4653]

watching phil do something new is futn awesome

[@kjbuchanan63]

This has been my all-time favorite episode. To see Tony and Phil here in the US, digging for dinosaur bones is a highlight. I think this is the 3rd time I've watched. You guys should come back and check out the La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles.

[@texastrina25]

Several years ago I took my kids on a road trip, from the Texas Panhandle up to South Dakota to see Mount Rushmore. We were gone a week. On our way back we stopped for lunch in a small town in Wyoming. Outside of this town, there was an active archeological site! It was a massive mammoth site with multiple mammoths in various stages of exhumation. They had a wood plank pathway around the site, with information to read about the mammoths being actively excavated by university students. We could watch them work! It was fantastic!!!

[@preiter20]

Tony and Phil are the ultimate travel buddy film. So happy I found this!

[@DrewishAF]

21:16 Now THAT is the true dinosaur... What an ancient, extinct specimen it is...

[@ameliaknipp8985]

So glad you were here! Love you guys❣️

[@VitaKet]

Please put when it was filmed in the info...

[@gaylegoodman9097]

Thank you so much for educating me regarding the “asteroid” theory. I’ve always wondered about how they all died at once? This where the saying “Patience is a virtue” is really literal 😮. Something I definitely don’t have!

[@seanpaula8924]

A pleasure to see Phil and Tony enjoying the Colonies.

[@llYossarian]

0:17 - I used to live in Bozeman and they'll sometimes have the theme from Twin Peaks playing over the PA at this airport...

[@nicholas920us]

This is such a cool change for time team... what a great special!

[@miciarokiri5182]

Absolute History, is there any chance you guys could find and release Tony's "Blood and Honey" series? It's so much fun. My husband grew up on it and introduced me to it when our library still carried the VHS tapes. I would love to have my kids see it and I think your viewers would love it

[@trishriederer1857]

Sounds interesting, what's it about?

[@jcortese3300]

This was terrific fun to watch -- and I have to admit, part of the fun was watching laconic frontier Americans and the exuberant, extroverted Phil conversing. A switch from the stereotypical outgoing American and introverted Brit!

[@roandaniel1448]

Tony and Phil are the best. 😂

[@greywater3186]

Square mileage of Great Britain: 80,823 Square mileage of Montana: 145,509 GB is roughly the size of Kansas. England is roughly the size of Louisiana.

[@raeperonneau4941]

Montana is one of the most beautiful place in the US.

[@hawkeyestiguy]

This is strong evidence of a massive flood!

[@joelledurben3799]

Thank you for sharing this. Could you please post the year in the description? It helps me process the information, especially as related to the dinosaur bone trade

[@arazatliyev6564]

❤Dinosauros

[@sylviajones4907]

Very much enjoyed this episode! Thank you.

[@davidadams7459]

I've seen this a dozen times and can watch many more.

[@RainCheck797]

Is anyone else hung up on Mon-tah-nah? It sounds nice, but thats new to me lol.

[@Finallybianca]

Damn I was on a dig the year before this was shot. I was so close to meeting them.

[@michaelmcwilliams4380]

Tony & Phil would love going to the tar pits in Los Angeles.

[@valbain209]

I found it funny that the guy tiny Phil a children's picture and they go to the tiny museum and their are children's picture books.😊 I love this video. I think Tony and Phil were troopers. Kudos to them.

[@JohnBoyJoy]

montana is a beautiful place and i would love to live there near the mountains.

[@michaelfried3123]

How old is this series? 20 years old?

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Thanks.

[@uppal123g]

I am in love with Phil and tony

[@ismellbeanscooking]

I'd love to see them dig an oyster mound on Edisto Island, SC.

[@Charley_Buehner]

Worth keeping in mind, that a vast majority of bones found are scattered with little context available - either due to predation where scavengers tear it apart and only a few random pieces find their way into an environment that will eventually facilitate fossilization, or the carcass falls into water where it decomposes, and flood waters scatter the bones over countless miles of riverbed. Finding a complete skeleton is incredibly rare, and partially articulated sections (two leg bones together, etc) are often considered 'big' finds. Prying a T-rex tooth out of a jawbone jutting out of the hillside and selling it, is vastly different from finding a single bone from a deposit that holds no other pieces of the same animal. In Jack's own words here, "Junk Bone" -- we've all got our own definition of "junk" -- some people in this world would pay to have that piece that got tossed back on the ground as 'junk' -- for as long ago as this video was probably shot, it's very likely those 'junk' bones are completely gone now - if someone wants to give ya money for it, and give those fragments a chance to 'live on' -- I say go for it. Make two people's lives better. Of course, tearing apart bigger specimens is a totally different story, this is where experience and professional discretion come into play. Just don't automatically assume that a single vertebra on somebody's trophy shelf is a missing puzzle piece to someone else's find-of-a-lifetime ---- it almost certainly isn't.

[@catherinelw9365]

Did he say Montana was the size of England? England = 50,301 square miles. Montana = 147,040 square miles. 🙄

[@QuintRepler]

He may have meant the United Kingdom, not just England. England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales would add up to about the same

[@warrenfeldman1572]

This was a great Time Team

[@davecurda2350]

They should have come to Alberta and the Royal Tyrrell Museum.

[@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?

[@jackievandeven4797]

If one team decides that it is too good for others, or the general public to find and hold, they can decide it all can be hidden. And what to tell and what to "control" especially history goes to a few.

[@jamiebizness1]

Bob is hilarious

[@Blade_Daddy]

I was thinking Phil was gonna spot some Samian ware.😅

[@madmann5040]

Now how did Phil get his trowel through the metal detector?

[@Bjowolf2]

Yes, why didn't the US border control arrest him? - he even sounds like a pirate 😂

[@Backroad_Junkie]

It was probably in his checked luggage...

[@robroy6804]

he left the parrot @@Bjowolf2

[@johnhamilton4677]

Sometimes the pictures that they use make Tony look like such a geek lol

[@iwalkincircles2960]

People pay him to dig up his bones. He's figured it out.

[@Backroad_Junkie]

There are dino sites all through the West from Montana to Arizona. More interesting (publicly accessible) sites are Makoshika State Park (up near Glendive, Montana) and Dinosaur National Monument in Utah/Colorado.

[@Justin1337Sane]

They are living my Childhood dream, but at least i get to see someone else live it through my pc monitor here in Viking Denmark ;D no t rex here sadly :( :D

[@CrazyDogLadySky]

This was awesome! I flippin love history, and especially dinos!

[@JDMdrifterboy7]

When was this filmed?

[@andersandersen6295]

around 2000

[@patrickmason2756]

As the locals call it mohn-tah-nah

[@taebundy658]

Looking the fossils up in a Dino book. 😂😂😂😂😂

[@yiy3429]

The same as The Hunt For Dinosaur Fossils In The Rocky Mountains | Dinosaur Hunt: A Time Team Special | Timeline

[@NothingToNoOneInParticular]

So funny they think Montana is West, it's quite literally Mountain, in name and time.

[@domashnie_lubimtsy]

It's so sad to see archeological sites destroyed by greedy idiots. Right when I wanted to ask people in the comments if there's such a problem in other countries I realised that it's an issue not of a particular country, but the capitalist world as a whole. In Russia archeologists suffer from private parties with metal detectors and it's a huge problem, laws don't really work as not many people report such activity and if they do it takes time for the police to get to the spot and get the perpetrators red handed - and if this happens the fine is not that high.

[@catherinelw9365]

Finally some of the stolen artifacts from Mesa Verde are being returned by the Finnish government. A Swedish archeologist, Gustaf Nordenskiöld, stole a bunch of bones and other objects from the site over 100 years ago. They were in Finland in a museum, but now the Finnish government agreed to return them to the US.

[@domashnie_lubimtsy]

@@catherinelw9365 it's so good to hear this! At least they were not sold to some private collection and I hope they will be taken good care of!

[@catherinelw9365]

@@domashnie_lubimtsy Yes, any human remains that are returned will go back to the tribe and they will bury them.

[@domashnie_lubimtsy]

@@catherinelw9365 will they test them for DNA or are they already attributed to certain tribes? Either way this is so heartwarming!

[@catherinelw9365]

@@domashnie_lubimtsy It's according to whichever tribes occupied the area from where it was stolen. I don't know if they were able to extract DNA from the bones. But apparently the tribes of the area are taking care of the remains according to their culture. (Navajo, Hopi, Apache and Ute).

[@Blade_Daddy]

Fossil = Nick Aston 😂😂😂

[@valbain209]

Argh. The tiny museum had children's picture books. Like the same Tony and Phil had.

[@robertalpy]

Every single species of bird is a dinosaur. Are all birdes decended from the same dinosaur? I doubt it. Maybe. I lile to think of t rex being a chicken.

[@roywall8169]

Mun tah nah…..😂

[@markuschampos5750]

I love archeology but I can't think of anything more boring that digging after dinosaurs!

[@robinminn271]

I am naive why is finding these bones and evaluation of them necessary. What does the info gleaned affect the living now?

[@fullSendernopretender]

Entertainment value...click & ad revenue possibly..

[@korzer]

Paleontologists at North Carolina State University have determined that a 68 million year-old Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil from Montana is that of a young female, and that she was producing eggs when she died. The proof, they say, is in the bones. The Tyrannosaurus rex known as B. rex has now yielded bone tissue that is common in female birds, said Mary Higby Schweitzer, a paleontologist at North Carolina State University and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. A former graduate student at Montana State University, she is at MSU for the summer. The discovery not only means that B. rex was female, but it signifies the end of a scientific treasure hunt, according to Schweitzer who announced her discovery in the June 3 issue of the journal Science. Researchers have long predicted they would find medullary tissue in dinosaurs, but they hadn't found it until it appeared in the hind thigh bones of B. rex, Schweitzer said. Scientists expected to find the tissue in dinosaurs because other evidence linking birds and dinosaurs is so robust and all female birds have medullary tissue.

[@Bjowolf2]

With that negative attitude we would never have discovered anything! - geology ( elements --> physics, chemistry, dating methods for samples, continental drift --> where to look for oil, gas, minerals ), archeology, history, how did we end up in the current situation etc. ?

[@RainCheck797]

It can tell us the history of prehistoric earth. The bones of animals themselves can tell us alot of what the landscape was like. How and where they are found can also tell us what was going on our planet at the time. Most paleontologists have a geology background. It's how we know about weather cycles, and what caused them, as well as cataclysmic events, like volcano erruptions. It has also helped us understand evolution. Also, don't discount natural human curiosity. It's part of our nature to try and understand everything. People were seeking out and collecting dinosaur bones before the knew what they were. They were often attributed to mythological creatures, especially partial skeletons that were put together incorrectly. They were often attributed to Dragons, cyclops, gods etc.

[@andersandersen6295]

First of all it shows some that belive otherwise that the world is older than 6000 years.

[@markfriedersdorf4750]

No more unethical than digging up gold, silver,copper,coal, or oil to sell.

[@robertalpy]

What is with the long haired guy and cut off jeans? Why do his legs look like a womans legs. He shaves his legs...thats wierd.

[@catherinelw9365]

That's Phil Harding and he's awesome. Maybe he has hairless legs, some men do. Odd question.

[@samantha1877]

What's funny is how pronounced Montana. I thought what country are they going to.😅😅😅😅

[@katzgar]

cant pronounce diddly