# Bad Lands, Great Fossils

## Метаданные

- **Канал:** thebrainscoop
- **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHJn_ENC9ko

## Содержание

### [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHJn_ENC9ko) Segment 1 (00:00 - 02:00)

My next stop on the Montana Dinosaur Trail is outside of Glendive at Makoshika State Park, which is home to at least 10 different dinosaur species. Before going off in search of one myself, I stopped by the visitors center to talk to Clayton Pfeifer, the park's recreation ranger and resident paleontologist. A little overview of the geological history of Makoshika. 90% of the park pretty much is the Hell Creek Formation. This big gray area here, you find all like your big heavy hitter dinosaurs from the Lake Cretaceous, Edmontosaurus, Ankylosaurs. All the big ones you picture from like the end of the age of dinosaurs. You can find T-Rex stuff in the park. Banana dagger. Yep. Pretty much. This Triceratops skull is actually genuine. This one was actually found in the park. Most of this skull is real. The only parts that are not the nasal area, the front horn, the right side horn looks like it's like a slightly different color, but all the rest that skull is the real thing. We were one of the few places in the United States you can see the KPG boundary. The extinction of the dinosaurs, it was like a cascade of events. A meteor impacted and just blew so much debris into the air, blocked out the sun, a lot of the plants died. Without tons and tons of plants to eat, the large herbivores died. Without herbivores carnivores died. So, it's a domino effect. Directly after: turtle shells, gar scales, pieces of crocodile, almost all of the reptiles, birds, fish, and stuff that existed at the time of the dinosaurs, the same species are present. It just didn't have any of the dinosaurs or pterosaurs. Turtles were the real winner. That's what I've leared. Honestly. Yeah. I mean, between turtles and crocodiles, nothing's going to put those things down. This is actually a recreation of a dig that happened in Makoshika. Back in the '90s, they found this fantastic skeleton of a Thescelosaurus. It was in this incredibly tough rock. They had to call it a Blackhawk helicopter from the military to carry it in. I love anywhere that says "employees only. " Over here, these racks, there's all the stuff that we're still kind of processing. We got like Edmontosaurus bones, big turtle shell right there that kind of caved in. That's real. And then everything else here is real. Miscellaneous bones. We got a Ceratopsian rib over here. We actually have some ancient pine cones. There's a lot of marine fossils in here. You got stuff like clams, pieces of mosasaur. This right here is the vertebrae of an elasmosaur, which is like a plesiosaur. You know, like those long necked guys. Those aren't super common at this time. I could probably chat with Clayton all day, but I had traveled a long way in the hopes of finding a dinosaur fossil. Instead, I found this. Wacky formation where there is harder sandstone on top of softer sandstone. The softer sandstone starts to weather away. They look like mushrooms, but they're called hoodoos. Hoodoo you do. Hoodoo we do. Hoobie doobie doo. Hoodoos. Unfortunately, it looked like it was about to rain. So, I gave up on my dinosaur search and made the 2-hour drive to check out the Fort Peck Dam. At the nearby Gateway restaurant, the waitress encouraged me to try the cheesy fried pickle before I checked into the historic Fort Peck Hotel. The impeccable taxidermy decor made me feel like home, and the leather window shades did not.

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*Источник: https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/41449*