# Montana's First Dinosaur

## Метаданные

- **Канал:** thebrainscoop
- **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTjHfot_01g
- **Источник:** https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/41450

## Транскрипт

### Segment 1 (00:00 - 02:00) []

This is why I love Montana. I just hopped into the McCormick Cafe, saw a sign. It's where the locals eat. Amazing. Stuck up a conversation with a guy. Turns out he knows my grandma's family. Welcome to Montana! The folks from Visit Montana flew me from Chicago to Billings. I'm going on a road trip to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Montana Dinosaur Trail, highlighting great fossils and science at museums along the way. I have made it to my first stop on the Montana Dinosaur Trail, and it is here in the tiny town of Ekalaka, Montana. But it is genuinely one of my favorite museums in the world. It's the Carter County Museum. I've got a friend who I'm very excited to meet. I think you guys are really gonna like him. I found him. Nate Carroll, curator here at the Carter County Museum. I'm so excited to see you! Excited you're here. All of these fossils are found by farmers and ranchers. Montana's first mounted dinosaur skeleton. A decently old Edmontosaurus. It was originally mounted in the basement of the high school when the museum was school. So this thing has been a fixture of Ekalaka for a very long time. It has. Yeah. And kind of a fixture of Montana paleo. This is the first dinosaur that a lot of people ever saw mounted was this skeleton. And it was usually because they were here for basketball tournament, right? And had to go to the bathrooms in the basement floor. It's a Triceratops. It came out in 1949. The guy who found it... this was his lunch spot when he would watch sheep. This Plesiosaur over here was found by a rancher that was looking for a lost bull and then found this giant pile of rocks that looked out of place and it turned out that there was an entire Plesiosaur wrapped around it. That's a thing of nightmares truly. It is. So the rest of the skull mostly got eroded away but the jaws were hanging just right on the surface of the dirt there. What a find! What a find. Yeah. You just would not imagine when you're driving through that landscape that underneath all those rocks are some of the most terrifyingly amazing animals that have ever swam. The Hell Creek Formation, it's what brings all the boys to the yard. I imagine for the last, I don't know, 100 years, most people were probably fixated on the big stuff. Yes. Yeah. Yep. Part of the problem with the Hell Creek actually is that the big stuff is always eroding out. A T. rex will wreck your summer, right? You have to dig it out and they're not small animals. Even just one femur is quite a bit of work. And then you have to have the space for that. And then your lab is full of T. Rex. You can spend that same amount of man-hour sorting out lots of little fish teeth and scales, maybe frog fingers or salamander jaws. And you've been able to help out with this, too. Fact, we even have you on display. Nuh-uh. Yeah. No way. You do have my little bone on display. Oh my gosh, that's so cool. I didn't realize that it would be significant. It's a part of the museum. That's me. Oh, two-headed calf, which you can now get on a Squish penny. We've got a Squish Penny machine. We're a real museum now. Squish Penny. A real destination. Five different designs.