where are we at April? we are at Dinosaur National Monument
at the swelter what? Swelter Shelter that's so fun to say Swelter Shelter
Hey you guys! Thanks for joining us on another journey. Today we're at Dinosaur National
Monument in Utah they also have it in Colorado as well. So sit back, relax and enjoy the journey!
what you got April? this is the Fremont people again where did we see them Capitol Reef
i don't remember but i recognized the name a thousand years ago they lived here
they used minerals clays and other materials to create the pigments
and they use these things called hammer stones to chip and carve the images sandstone darkened
with desert varnish which is a naturally formed stain of iron and manganese oxides
do not touch these fah- fragi- fragile petroglyphs can never be replaced look how some of these down
here starting to lose there yeah they're getting faded away from probably all the weather water
wind sand oh you see that one uh the big devil one you can barely see it
yeah let's go millennial at a national park playing on your cell phone she was watching
one of our YouTube videos weren't you Autumn yes she was like i ain't seen YouTube videos since
you guys first started since my mom made me made me watch them i've lost my my wielding power with
her my bribing power that i had you never had any i did when she was two she watched some
welcome to Dinosaur National Monument the shuttle bus is about to depart for the dinosaur quarry
exhibit hall so because of covid-19 you have to get a pass online to be able to go to the
bones exhibit this guy Earl Douglass in 1909 says at last in the top of the ledge i saw eight of the
tailbones of a brontosaurus in exact position that is crazy this is one of the bones yeah
go stand by it so we get a perspective of how big that is
can you imagine being this guy who just this Earl Douglass who discovers these tail bones of an
apatosaurus just arching out of the ground and in a life-like position yeah that's crazy that's
what i was reading back there when you had me stand by the bone they're in the Carnegie Museum
in Pittsburgh because he was a paleontologist that's why they sent them back to Carnegie Museum
that bone that you had me stand by was probably it was a bone of a brontosaurus but the bones
he first found were eight tailbones of an apatosaurus like this picture
you touching a bone
a real one
a giant one interesting so Earl Douglass never saw these bones that we see today but he said that he
wanted to leave things here he says i hope the government for the benefit of science and the
people will uncover a large area leave the bones and skeletons in relief and house them in it would
make one of the most astounding and instructive sites imaginable so it was his idea to
have this this quarry yielded the remains of over 500 dinosaurs and other animals that live during
the Morrison time period it's a spectacular record but it's biased so what caused it was it like a
flood i'm not sure what do you mean what caused it i mean why are all these dinosaurs all in the
same spot here's your answer why are there so many dinosaur fossils here the river that flowed
here during the late Jurassic is as extinct as the dinosaurs that buried it flowed west to east
left to right as you look a quarry so it flowed this way an ancient river flowed swiftly across
a vast plain here then a long drought killed many dinosaurs some dinosaur bodies lay near and
in the dry river channel when extensive rains returned floods drowned some dinosaurs and swept
up carcasses of others that were already dead the fast flowing river carried the bones downstream
along the river bottom as floodwaters receded the rivers slowed the bones dropped to the river
bottom and began to pile up they were covered by sand and mud the result was the dinosaur
log jam that you see here most of the fossils here are from huge dinosaurs oh large objects obviously
move slower in the fast flowing river smaller animals were swept away and destroyed there are
no fossils here of lizards fish or small dinosaurs or mammals so that that makes sense look at that
wow 149 million years ago what the what look at that like literally one
two three at least five of your heads right paleontologists discovered this skeleton in 1990
excavation took over three years and included a helicopter lift
Dinosaur National Monument honestly it's pretty impressive i've kind of didn't think it was
going to be as amazing as some of the full-blown national parks but so far you got to put this on
your list and here we are in our Dinosaur Inn Dinosaur Inn in Vernal Utah we highly suggest
if you're in Vernal Utah staying at Dinosaur Inn and suites great family owned and operated hotel
this was one of the best breakfasts i've had in a hotel in a very long time and super friendly staff
what are we paying for this one tonight about $99 i think not bad for a holiday weekend yeah
and it's pretty spacious like there's a place to sit a desk ah i can edit you yeah
that's good and especially since we have Autumn with us it's good to have
the room. We want to thank you guys for watching our video
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